September 2008 Archives

Oh looky! The Klan is coming to support McCain at the debate tonight.

Apparently, Giuliani jumped on Straight Fist One to suck up to Ace in case, you know, that whole Palin thing doesn't work out.

Throw in some Talibangelicals and snake handlers and you've got most of the Republican base.

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The IAVA has an online petition to request that these vermin do not take away the rights and the voice of our armed forces in this year's election.

Here is a news article on the story, focusing on the disenfranchisement of the homeless and poor. The military would be yet another group the GOP is trying to silence in this year's election.

Get 'em while they are young. Some fifth grade assmunch with the WASP/Pigfucker name of Daxx Dalton chose suspension from school rather than take off his "Obama is a terrorist's best friend" t-shirt.

I might have a problem with this if a) he was an adult and not a brainwashed inbred Republican, and b) if the Bush Leaguers hadn't spent the past decade censoring thought in this country to the point where you can't even challenge the Presidunce.

In New Jersey, Republicans are racist co-religious zealots

Cizik may want to believe Republicans aren't infested with racists and bigots, but he's an idiot for doing so.

Why, Hockey Mom VP Sarah Palin once got "freed from witchcraft" from a preacher who believes our economy could be stronger if "Christians" could wrest control of the economy from "Israelites". Say what?! Yeah, that's right, the Talibangelicals are wondered about Jewish moneylenders.

Pathetic bastards.

Hell, I *know* there is more. I'm just too pissed off to go find it.

According to MyDD, McCain is advertising that he's alreadywon the first debate.

You know, the one he chickened out of. The one he tried to dodge. Come on, the one he was too much of a pussy to go to until he finally announced today that he'll go. Sorry, asshole, you aren't getting off the hook that easy.

Anyway, here's a copy of the ads his supposedly suspended campaign are already putting out:

"God Fucking Dammit if you vote for McCain you are the biggest child raping priest retardedloserasshole brainhungry zombie idiotshitcunt McAssfinch Palinpumping bitchtwatmotherfucking cumpuppet, squirreljizzsucking, molesting candycrapdickholepussyfart eating, penisheaded russianpussynosed mommyhating bomb dropping weakling infant in the entire braindead universe."

- commenter mchrisneglia at Reddit on misplaced GOP priorities

Bonus John Stewart video from last night:

When he isn't running around praising the bullshit selection of Sarah Palin as America's Top Hockey Mom - oh wait, she might be PRESIDENT you idiots! - Bill Clinton is mouthing words that, if you could believe him, would lead you to think he wants Barack Obama to win the election.

Maureen Dowd rightly points out that Bill needs to do a better job, going as far to say:

On "The View," he said he understood that some women might vote for Palin on the basis of gender, even if it was against their economic interest.

"You can't tell someone else that the ground on which they make their voting decision is irrational," he said primly.

Well, actually you could, if you weren't still sulking and plotting for 2012.

Chris Rock was a tad more blunt. Following Clinton on Letterman the other night, he called out Clinton, even to the point of saying - and this is true if you've watched either Clinton at all - that Bill can't even say Barack's name. Take a look:

He also did a fine job on Larry King, but I don't see any video for that yet. If I do, I'll link it.

One last shot at Bill. At least for today.

Given that we would never have had the odious George W. Bush in the White House in the first place if it wasn't for your blow jobs, Bill, it seems obvious that you owe it to the people of this country, and especially to the parents whose kids died in the Iraq War that Gore would never have started, and to all the parents whose kids would be killed in the WarFest that would be a McCain/Palin -- sorry, Palin/McCain -- administration to do everything in your power to get Barack Obama elected.

And that is how Paul Slansky starts his attack on the pathetic behavior of Bill Clinton.

Here are some frivolous and somewhat serious things you could do with $700 billion.

From a Reddit link, here's an oldie but goodie on when Bush vetoed a plan to extend SCHIP health insurance coverage for children. He said we didn't have enough money.

The cost? $35 billion.

We didn't have money to provide health insurance for kids, but we can drop everything and give the frigging store to a bunch of corrupt bankers.

The Democrats are even going along with this. Just like they sold our military out to an illegal war in Iraq. Just like they sold out our rights to pass the PATRIOT Act. Just like both parties have pissed on the Constitution and sold our country's soul down the river to lobbyists, BlackWater thugs, and Talibangelical assholes who want to create a theocracy in this nation.

This blows.

And then we have the tragicomic douchebag McCain "suspending his campaign" to show up in the Senate, something he hasn't done in months.

Much has been said about Letterman's trashing of "Ace" for cancelling his appearance on the Late Show and lying about it.

And while good, I still say the best attack goes to recently minted citizen Craig Ferguson:

"You can't suspend the democratic process because we're facing problems. At what point do you think, maybe we should suspend the election? We'll have the elections later. Some people have done that before: Castro did it, Napoleon did it, Julius Caesar did it. You can't do that. If you like it or not, the campaign is part of the democratic process....You wanna take your time off, that's fine, but you don't say we're suspending the campaign. You can't say that. It's the democratic process. We didn't suspend it for 9/11, we didn't suspend it for Pearl Harbor, we didn't suspend it for the Nazis, we didn't suspend it for the damn British. We don't do that in America!"

One last shot from Jon Soltz, from VoteVets:

"When you're Commander in Chief, I don't think there'd be a worse signal to send to our troops in harm's way than to say, 'Hey, hold on guys. I know you're getting killed over there, but I have to get a time-out here to deal with Wall Street.'

If troops need to multi-task without a break, is it so wrong that we demand that a potential President-in-waiting prove that he can manage a financial crisis, and still address crises around the world for 90 minutes? And, if a potential President-to-be can't manage that, is it wrong to think that maybe he ought not just suspend a debate and the campaign, but move aside and get out of the race?"

Hey! Chickenshit McCain! Are you listening?

Which one is the Elitist again?

Not a ringing endorsement for Barack, but a damn fine assessment of McCain's failures.

Indians workers deal with their corrupt management their own way.

Hell, our Big Business Bastards don't even get a slap on the wrist and get tens of millions for driving companies into the ground.

I'm not advocating rivers of blood in the street, but maybe a couple of these guys could use a good drubbing, ya know?

Been running around trying to keep up with Gabriel, which is silly when you consider he can't even crawl. Crazy stuff folks.

Just a random sampling of what has been going on in my head for ya.

First off, I got a transfer inside the company. Far less, if any, travel and some new stuff to learn. So far, I'm quite happy. Changed bosses but Josh is pretty cool, though Luke was definitely the bomb as far as bosses go.

With the new job comes a damned Blackberry. Personally, I could punt the damn brick down the street and be quite happy with the decision, but oh well. One more leash, that's all.

So pardon me while I laugh my ass off when I heard recently that not only is John McCain a miracle worker, he's also a bleeding edge Canadian technology firm.

"Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce committe. So you're looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that's what he did."

- Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain shill

McCain's other minions tried to laugh it off, but McCain has also claimed credit for inventing cell phones and wifi.

Still not voting for you. Can you hear me now?

"It's another reason to be against John McCain. If he invented the BlackBerry, I blame him for having to spend too much time on my BlackBerry and not talking to my wife enough."

- Senator Sherrod Brown, OH

236.com shows up McCain's special Blackberry"

More news you already knew:

Republicans are fear-driven chickenshits...

...and racists, as evidenced by O'Reilly's "angry black woman" attack on Michelle Obama.

Bob Cesca on why the polls are so close. I have supporting links on that which I'll try to post later.

Here's an ad I wish we could see...

And one properly subtitled:

I forgot about this story but was thinking about it the other day when I realized that NO ONE is discussing immigration in the election this year.

I really wish it would come up. One, it's an important issue. Two, McCain is either going to piss off Rethugs by being a "maverick" or completely shit on his own past by claiming nativist, racist beliefs in order to earn votes. Either way works for me.

In May, ICE pulled a raid on a kosher meat packing plant in Postville, IA. The local response says both a lot on how Americans can be good neighbors and, unfortunately, how some of us can be total scumbags. More here and more on the labor issues revealed by the case as well.

You'd hope that a nation of immigrants would know better, but with GOP fanning the flames of racism and intolerance, no such luck.

More on the dangers of electing John McCain.

An Army officer retracts a slanderous rip on Obama from when Barack visited our troops in theater. Seems he, um, "embellished" some things when providing his slanted POV.

McCain repeatedly, and incorrectly, swears we don't torture people. This one the eve of him voting to keep waterboarding as an interrogation option. Okay...let me get this straight. You have been tortured. You don't like it. You swear we don't torture, yet you vote to keep a torture practice in the playbook knowing full well we have used it and will again. Bizarre little man.

Speaking of torture, some Homeland Security goons wants to outfit you with a shock collar when you travel on a plane. 'Nuff said.

And for every moment you hear that John McCain is some anti-corruption "maverick", let 236 remind you that:

Also, the Rethugs have been having a field day ripping on Obama for saying that we can conserve more fuel from basic automotive maintenance than by drilling for every last drop. The thing is? He's right. He is also right about getting guaranteed gains in fuel efficiency TODAY as opposed to MAYBE finding oil we will see in a pipeline no early than 12 years from now.

Another voice recommending conservation over blind faith in fairy tales.

Republicans: Don't accept personal responsibility for something you "might" be able to half-ass solve decades from now.

Recently the water authority restricted home watering schedules. There is a lot of work on convincing people to give up grass yards. Where we live on campus, desert landscaping is increasing. Basically, even though people come to Vegas from everywhere, it is becoming apparent that, hey, we're in the middle of the frigging desert, folks.

Our local weekly mags have touched on this, and on both the quality and availability of water in the valley, both today and for the foreseeable future.

If you are interested, give 'em a read.

Rethugs and Talibangelicals are afeared that the world is gonna end.

Wait a minute, I thought they WANTED the world to end? Isn't that why they are burning down the forests, drilling everywhere, bombing brown people, and torturing those who live through the bombings? Isn't that why they are trying to destroy science, make our children ignorance abstinence-only/butt-sex/Palin-spawn breeders, and kill any innovation that would stop us from giving billions to Saudis princes who then give said money to al-Qaeda to come kill our decadent asses?

Anyway, this comes to mind today as the Large Hadron Collider comes online today. If you are still reading this, nothing drastic happened. The world didn't end. The Rapture didn't happen.

Wired takes a look at the best and worst case scenarios for what the collider will do.

And if you truly ARE worried that science and not the Anti-Christ will end life as we know it, head on over to Has The Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet.com.

Oh, and don't worry about the lunatic fringe. Talibangelical farmers are already up in arms about RFID tagging on farm animals. Apparently all our meat is now subject to bearing the Mark of the Beast.

Freaks.

HuffPo has a couple freakout posts about folks who think McCain will automatically win because he chose a woman for his VP pick.

Never mind that she has abused power, bilked her state to pay for home cooked meals, lied repeatedly, hates choice, hates science, hates books, hate gay people, hates living creatures and loves oil as much as Dick Cheney. Oh, and is now taking political advice from Bushites.

That said, my mother-in-law is enthralled with her. Then again, the other side of the family is infested with GOP dolt think, but you have to hope folks will stop voting for racist Talibangelicals someday. Not this election apparently.

Sure, Dana Quayle has star power, but she also won't talk to the media, presumably because she doesn't know anything. This may not matter to a country that cares more about American Idol than on how our troops keep dying in that debacle in Iraq, but you've got to hope this country is better than that, ya know?

So, McCain is being a racist, which is predictable with a GOP candidate.

And now, he's apparently able to find sexism everywhere he looks. And let's be fair here. Obama said a dumb thing, but nowhere near as belligerent as when McCain attacked Clinton earlier this year. Sexism, thy home is the Republican Party and it's "feminazi" hate brigade.

Besides, isn't Palin supposed to be strong enough to fight her own battles? Isn't it a bit of male domineering roleplaying to have Ol' Man Johnny comin' to his woman's rescue?

Maybe I just don't get it.

Images courtesy of Pundit Kitchen:

As you know, Republicans are idiots:

...and fearmongers...

...backstabbers...

...and racist...

...not to mention cyborgs

Paul Krugman remembers that he should probably try to back the Democratic nominee and accused the GOP - rightly - of fomenting divisive hate in lieu of having any sound policy stances.

Same song. Same dance. Same McCain.

A couple entries from the "They said it" collection:

TOM BROKAW: But the fact is, governor, that you have had eight years of a bush administration and a lot of Republicans in Congress for the last eight years, so why wouldn't the american people say, look they had their shot we're going to change?

TOM RIDGE: Because John Bush - because John McCain is very much his own man...

Video here.

Also....

"This election is not about issues. This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates."

- Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager

On to Sarah Palin land.

1. She pronounces it "nookular". And they swear they aren't continuing the Age of Bush. Ha!

2. Bushites are giving her foreign policy lessons. If you haven't felt your stomach drop, re-read that sentence again. Four more wars!

3. A little sarcasm pointed AT Palin for once.

4. The Canadian media assesses and dismisses the choice of Palin,

5. More on the Palin Troopergate story.

6. And the separatist party connections. Look, if you hate America so much you want to actually split from it, you shouldn't be in charge of America. It's pretty simple.

7. Palin accuses the Democrats of attacking her family, yet can't think of one instance where this actually happened.

Onto McCain. One more look on who his ignorance of the internet IS relevant in this, you know, the 21st century.

He's also trying to dodge questions on his refusal to support birth control, though he's all pro-Viagra.

And for all his reminding us that he was once a POW, McCain is not getting the support of deployed soldiers. Obama is, at a rate of six to one. Our armed forces know who TRULY supports them.

A lot of GOP shit slinging lately has been about Obama being an "elitist". Hmm, because he went to Ivy League schools on scholarships and loans? Really? Wanting to improve yourself is American, not elitist.

Elitist is owning seven, eight, ten, whatever homes and not even knowing it. Elitist is cheating on your wife and ditching her for a strung out beer heiress and getting away with it.

Elitist is said trophy wife wearing a $300,000 outfit to the Rethug Nativist Convention and having the nerve to even insinuate the same tired, bullshit meme.

Then again, the true idiots are those that actually believe this and plan to vote for McCain.

"Is it just me or does Sarah Palin look like a model for LensCrafters?"

- David Letterman on McCain's running mate/Mrs. McCain #3-in-waiting

Angry. Black. Man.

Get used to it. The GOP is already rolling out the big racist guns.

"Obama's speech was predictable, it was implausible, and it was strikingly, inexplicably, angry."

If you can't reason why Obama - and the rest of us actual Americans - are angry, you fuckers haven't been paying attention. Said quote is in a review on Obama's acceptance speech at the National Review. It is utter bullshit, but I linked it anyway. Don't read it unless you LIKE migraines.

And honestly, McCain HAS to go the racist route, it's the only way he's bound to win given his litany of screwups. I mean, it starts with him calling Obama "uppity" and plunges downhill from there.

This is what you get with conservatives. So-called "Christian" groups bring up slavery when discussing Obama.

Something else you get with conservatives, theocons, and Talibangelicals is death. If they aren't bombing brown people or blowing up federal buildings, Republicans are shooting up liberal churches, assassinating Democratic party heads or are likely in hundreds of places currently planning to assassinate Obama.

And McCain is fine with it. Indeed, he doesn't even want to talk about race in this country or as it applies to the election. He KNOWS he has to pander to the racists and bigots to win.

He's too obtuse to realize that winning that way isn't winning at all.

Do you want to feel good about America again?

Or just have more of the same?

"So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime. The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American - even illegal aliens - as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care.

"So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved."

- John Goodman, President of the National Center for Policy Analysis, aka the assholes who wrote McCain's health care plan

So, we "solve" the uninsured problem by saying they aren't uninsured? That's like when the South "ended slavery" by instituting sharecropping.

I was thinking of this troll and his sad, pathetic candidate McCain when listening to Fresh Air the other day. Terry was talking to a political scientist who was comparing the Obama and McCain health care proposals, and wrote it up in the New England Journal of Medicine (read here if interested).

Basically, other than to mock in the face of poor and, yes, uninsured, I do not see one good reason to back McCain's so-called plan.

Turns out Sarah Palin is yet another Talibangelical. Reference this story concerning her psycho minister. Seriously, can't we just tax churches like this and get it over with?

I really hope that the old Luddite doesn't get elected. I really hope this country is smarter than I give it credit for. I seriously have my doubts, but....

I've been pretty much for Obama once I decided that Edwards was going to be too angry and lose sight of winning over pontificating. That was late last year and I'm glad to see that at least the Democratic Party has it's shit together, the racist Clintonite traitors notwithstanding.

So, with all the negativity of your standard GOP attack goon politics aside, I'd like to pass along some positive stories about Obama. Yeah, some of it is fluff, but well-meaning fluff so I'm happy to link you to it.

First off, Jacob Weisberg asks "What will the neighbors think?" if we send McCain to the White House? Will ANY nation ever trust us again? Good things to consider before voting yes on continuing the debacle of the Bush years.

Going back to the beginning, the NY Times did a nice article on Barack's mother back in March that bears a re-read.

Some Obama-inspired (and anti-McCain) humor for you.

The Nope poster, of course, is a parody on the famous Shepard Fairey Obama posters. Another article on the artist and his political work here.

Obama supporters have taken to using the middle name "Hussein" to counter the Clintonite/Republican attacks on Obama as "foreign".

In fact, that's a lot of the Hillary/McCain argument throughout the year. Barack is "too black" or "too exotic" or "too different". Whatever.

Obama excites people. Hell, there's a genre of Caribbean political songs devoted just to him.

Besides, he isn't different. He's the face of the rising minority and mixed race majority of this nation. Too bad the GOP refuses to acknowledge this. Then again, if not for the racists, bigots, hatemongers, and narrow-minded twits in their ranks, they wouldn't have much support, now would they?

From Ned's current Facebook status. I believe it points out the hypocrisy of the GOP and Talibangelicals in a nutshell:

Ned Bronson agrees with the GOP, Palin's daughter's pregnancy is private. Same with abortion, gay marriage, euthanasia, and recreational drug

This is in line with the problem I had last week with everyone falling over themselves to congratulate the Clintons for supporting Barack Obama. Bill & Hillary shouldn't have received accolades for doing what they did: they SHOULD have gotten kicked in the ass for taking too damn long to getting around to it.

Today, same thing. Bush is skipping day one of the KKK/GOP convention to monitor Hurricane Gustav. Why? Because that's what he SHOULD be doing. Also, unlike with Katrina, he has learned to stay the hell out of the way and quit endangering people's lives.

Hey, he's a utter dumbass, but even he can be taught. Sorta. Eventually.

Meanwhile, McCain is taking this opportunity to scale down his convention so that it isn't compared to the Democrat's and found sorely lacking. Unlike Bush, he's bringing his Old Coot and MILF party to Mississippi, probably to tie up a critical highway where folks in ambulances will die waiting for his motorcade to come through.

In case you forgot, when Katrina hit, Bush was nowhere in command of the situation. Instead, he was having birthday cake with McCain:

More pics here and here.

I would give them credit for learning a lesson, but like I said, it's their f'in job to get it right THE FIRST TIME!