Friday, November 30, 2007
How Andy Cooper ended up with egg on his face.
and America is gonna end up with a POTUS with big floppy shoes and a red rubber nose
Yanno those silly, childish, useless, em-bare-assing debates? Remember those dry, issue-focused, serious debates of your ute?
Here’s ‘whahoppened?!?’
“The League of Women Voters is withdrawing its sponsorship of the presidential debate scheduled for mid-October because the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter,” League President Nancy M. Neuman said today.
“It has become clear to us that the candidates’ organizations aim to add debates to their list of campaign-trail charades devoid of substance, spontaneity and honest answers to tough questions,” Neuman said. “The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to the hoodwinking of the American public.”
Neuman said that the campaigns presented the League with their debate agreement on September 28 [1988], two weeks before the scheduled debate. The campaigns’ agreement was negotiated “behind closed doors” and vas [sic] presented to the League as “a done deal,” she said, its 16 pages of conditions not subject to negotiation.
Most objectionable to the League, Neuman said, were conditions in the agreement that gave the campaigns unprecedented control over the proceedings. Neuman called “outrageous” the campaigns’ demands that they control the selection of questioners, the composition of the audience, hall access for the press and other issues.
“The campaigns’ agreement is a closed-door masterpiece,” Neuman said. “Never in the history of the League of Women Voters have two candidates’ organizations come to us with such stringent, unyielding and self-serving demands.”
Neuman said she and the League regretted that the American people have had no real opportunities to judge the presidential nominees outside of campaign-controlled environments.
“On the threshold of a new millenium, this country remains the brightest hope for all who cherish free speech and open debate,” Neuman said. “Americans deserve to see and hear the men who would be president face each other in a debate on the hard and complex issues critical to our progress into the next century.”
Neuman issued a final challenge to both Vice President Bush and Governor Dukakis to “rise above your handlers and agree to join us in presenting the fair and full discussion the American public expects of a League of Women Voters debate."
Children are more easily governed.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Meme-o-mania!
aw hell… beat ‘em/join ‘em… whatever
Since the campaign has already gone on far too freakin’ long and we’re what? five weeks away from one of those tent/caucus/straw dance thingies which, for some reason, seems more important than actual people actually voting in the determination of which one of those wackdoodles will win the popularity contest POTUS, folks seem to be getting punchy. I mean seriously! A bar fight?!?!? [on my side or t’other?]
So now I guess we gotta come up with various ‘n’ sundry other ways to cheapen the American electoral process pick a winnah!
-- Which candidate would you most like to go shopping with?
-- Which candidate would you most like to walk on a moonlit beach with?
-- Which candidate would you most like to have clean your refrigerator?
-- Which candidate would you most like to smear in chocolate?
-- Which candidate would you most like to serve dinner to?
-- Which candidate would you most like to serve for dinner?
-- Which candidate would you most like to see in a creamed corn wrasslin’ match with Dennis Da Alien Elf Kucinitch?
-- Which candidate would you most like to defenestrate?
-- Which candidate would you most like to force to listen to an entire Yonni album?
-- Which candidate would you most like to pie?
-- Which candidate would you most like to cow pie?
-- Which candidate would you most like to sent to the the barrios of Frants?
-- Which candidate would you most like to see as a baby?
-- Which candidate would you most like to dress up as a fan dancer?
-- Which candidate would you most like to have read you a Tolstoy novel?
-- Which candidate would you most like to have paint your kitchen?
-- Which candidate would you most like to paint?
-- Which candidate would you most like to pants?
-- Which candidate would you most like to ____________?
When Magnificent Fat Bastids Attack
cain’t barely hear the knife go in...
“Congress took up its [Iraq] war resolution too soon, sooner than the Bush administration wanted, and that Congress’ timing made the resolution and thereby the war political.”
ToDaZeD WTF?!?!?
wrinkled
?!??!!?
Figures of U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama, John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani (L-R) are presented in a Christmas nativity scene by ceramic artist Genny Di Virgilio at his shop in Naples…
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
When Pop Kulchah Attacks!
battle of “civilizations"
reality TV show to be broadcast next month sees non-Muslims living under strict Sharia law for three weeks, could also reinforce some people’s intolerance towards Islam.
...[contestants] include a mixed race couple, a gay hairdresser, an atheist taxi driver and a glamour model . . . all of whom are called upon to give up unmarried sex, alcohol and pork, pray regularly and dress modestly for three weeks.
...[BBC] Channel Four on December 16, 17 and 18
So is this a step in ‘normalizing’ sharia? or a step in trivializing it?
Exit question: WTF is “po-faced”?!?
By The Numbers
self-criticism class will begin in ten minutes
[a 9 year old boy] was suspended for three days this month for allegedly committing a “hate crime” by using the expression “brown people.”
But wait . . .
the tape recording indicates this only came out after another parent was allowed to question the boy and elicited from him the statement that he “doesn’t cooperate with brown people."
But wait . . .
That parent happens to be the mother of the student with whom he is having a conflict—and she happens to work for Abraham Lincoln as a detention-room officer.
But wait . . .
After that was reported to the boy’s teacher, he was made to stand in front of his class and publicly confess what he’d said
But wait . . .
When [the boy’s mother] objected to the suspension during the conference, [the principal] told her that she didn’t have any rights; that parents give up their rights to discipline when they send a child to school, the tape shows.
*Freedom* is just another word
Democrats don’t like to use
Silky Pony: “I’m mandating healthcare for every man, woman, and child in America and that’s the only way to have real universal healthcare.”... When asked by a reporter if an individual decided they didn’t want healthcare Edwards quickly responded, “You don’t get that choice."
O
samabamarama: says he would enforce his mandate for health care for all children by fining parents if they refused to allow health care coverage for their children.“I am happy to be very clear how we enforce mandates for children, and the reason is because children don’t have an option."
Quick and happy to deny Americans the opportunity to make any choices of their own.
Paging RAH
Just WOW
Must See video— exoskeletons for troops
[think this might start some myths among the turd-worlders?]
erm... *what* century is this?
*checks wrist sundial*
Rickets on the rise in children
Quagmiiiire!!!
TodAzEd RTWT
Just past the checkpoint was a sign written in Arabic: Welcome to Fallujah. A Terrorist-Free City.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Havin' Trouble here . . .
cynical? moi?!?
Anyone else having trouble with this stat?
The National Alliance to End Homelessness [study says]
...Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population
...2005 data estimated that 194,254 homeless people out of 744,313 on any given night were veterans
Given that the Veterans Affairs Department has identified 1,500 homeless veterans from the current wars, 400 having participated in its programs, I find that stat just a tad too reminiscent of the slurs against Viet Nam veterans [which were so clearly, thoroughly and cleanly debunked in the largely ignored Stolen Valor]
Spiral, anyone?
ToDaZeD "Now *there's* a thought...
LOOK! Something shiny!!!
I heard/saw this a coupla times today so maybe it’s becoming a meme—it was new to me but it’s an interesting thought. What if:
Bill Clinton didn’t lie about Monica to get out of trouble—he lied about Monica to get into trouble.
Then he could dazzle us all with the bullshiite about what the meaning of is is and the various possibilities of ceegars [eww] and avoid dealing with the out-fall from his pronouncements on Saddam, his ignoring of Obamasamarama and all the other little foibles of his their administration knowing full well the sex-obcessed MSM would follow that little blue dress like a hound after a knockwurst.
Hillary could litter the national psyche with Victim Cards playing Tammy Wynette and creating decrying the VRWC and set herself up for the next go-’round.
Brilliant, come to think of it if he thought of it.
Antici . . .
...pation
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.--Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
History is not a straight line; it’s a spiral, moving through the same ground over and again with the only details changing. Some passes ‘round the spiral, the issues are overtly dead, bloody serious and other times around the details are smaller, less pressing, seeming even inconsequential; unless they effect you directly. But the form holds. If the pattern in question is one that ends in loss of liberty, the severity of the particulars of the moment matters not: the end will be the same. Restriction. Darkness. Horror. Death. Regeneration. Repeat.
Yes, Regeneration is in there. It always is. Until that last time when it isn’t. But it takes a toll; in lives, in Time, in possibilities, in losses irretrievable.
What Santayana was warning Humanity about when he said “he who fails to remember History repeats itXXX,” was our willingness to delude ourselves that “it will be different this time.” We—especially we open and optimistic Americans—are loath to see the pattern coming ‘round again. We are reluctant to accept that, along with gravity, taxes and coffee getting too cold too fast, simple human failings can so quickly turn to Evil and the life we have so carefully built over generations can be shattered in the space of decades or just years.
Awakening in time to act is key. It’s also rare.
Jeffrey Warren of St. Helena i the Napa Valley is awakening. I wonder where he stood on the issues of smoking bans, PC language or any of the other myriad ways in which the gentle push of engineered social pressure has been shaping his neighbors?
Under the auspices of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, “Public hearings” are being held to determine the fate of the family hearth....in the interest of basic fairness, we’d at least like the decision-makers to employ the rudiments of the scientific method, rather than riding the winds of energy dependence and global warming hysteria, before coming to a final decision.
The scientific method follows a rigid methodology. Ask a question. Do background research. Construct a hypothesis. Test the hypothesis. And then, communicate the results.
So what is the question? Are the fires in our homes bad because they add to global warming? Release carbon dioxide into the air? Pollute the atmosphere with soot and particulate matter? All of the above?
Where is the research? The Chronicle reported that “government studies” indicate that 33 percent of all “particulate matter” comes from your fireplace and mine. With all the industry and all the cars in the Bay Area, does anyone actually believe that?
Hm. I wonder how loudly he calls for Algore to climb down off his ridiculous scissor lift and actually check his numbers. He did miss the most important party of the scientific process: the hypothesis, complete with sustaining experimentally derived facts, must be consistently reproducible.
Mr. Warren describes his personal attachment to his fireplace:
a fire crackling in the fireplace is about a different kind of energy — psychic energy. Families gather around the fire.
...During the energy crisis in California, our family closed the parlor doors and gathered in one tiny room around the fire. ...Five of us read, played chess, did homework and paid bills, in a chilly room heated only by our tiny hearth.
Never was our family closer. The fire was more than a source of heat.It was a mystical, magical magnet of love, warmth and togetherness.
He’s completely right, there. Even my dog likes our fireplace. She tells us, “pretty good idea you meunkees came up with here,” as she lies watching the flames.
As I watch with her, I think about how many humans before me sat and looked into the fire; just feeling the comfort of safety and warmth or thinking great thoughts and imagining possibilities. Everything from the wheel, the cart, planting a seed and sticking around to nurture it to the Magna Carta and The Constitution were considered by the light of a hearth fire.
I think Mr. Warren has been doing some considering by the light of his fire.
We worry that the real issue here isn’t about health, global warming or energy savings, but about control.
Were it not about control, the dialogue would be about baffles and filters to eliminate soot, not about outright bans.
We’re not asking the real questions. So how can we test the hypothesis?
Nailed it in one, Mr Warren.
So what’s the next step—the next phase on this go-round of the spiral? I think Mr. Warren and voices like his are saying “Wait a minute here! You’re taking things away from people that they want and need! Without even proving that it’s good for anyone!” They will be met with voices louder and yet more shrill crying out for The Common Good and, yes, The Chiiildren.
His rational argument on behalf of actual science will be over-shouted and his very real emotional attachment to hearth [and home] will be characterized—dare I say character assassinated—with condemnations of selfishness and elitism. If everyone cannot have a fireplace, why should he?!? If his fire makes one poor distressed soul cough from miles away, how can he be so unfeeeeling?!?
Hey—if someone who wants a country with actual, meaningful borders can be called a “racist” without challenge, why would any other self-defensive protestation go unimpugned?
And if we leave those slurs unchallenged, well… We might as well hang it up, get in line and shuffle along.
ToDaZeD Raaaaacist Post
*STANDING OVATION*
...perhaps the most valid generalization of all: The leftist thought police are a menace to civilization and free speech. They are turning us into an ideological state, a place where ideology isn’t rejected when it departs from truth but truth is rejected when it departs from ideology.
As for remedy, the best antidote to political correctness is its opposite. We don’t have to speak and joke and talk and think in a way that pleases those who prove that infantilism doesn’t always peak in infancy. Instead, we should stand up for truth - be it in the form of wit, policy or paradigm - and those who speak it. Do this en masse and “startle” those thought police enough, and we just might be rid of them after all.
Pandermania!
that’s why I support XXXXXXXX
TV Guide asked the *sigh* candidates what’s their favorite TV show. After hot ‘n’ heavy sessions with the focus groups looking deep within their hearts,
Hillary Clinton HGTV makeover shows, Grey’s Anatomy, American Idol, and Dancing with the Stars, but her all-time TV favorite is The Ed Sullivan Show.
Barack Obama “SpongeBob SquarePants, because
SpongeBob is the show I watch with my daughters.because he understands it. His favorite TV shows of all time are M*A*S*H and The Wire.John Edwards is a fan of Boston Legal, and tells TV Guide that his viewing guilty pleasure is “Fred Thompson on Law & Order.”
Dennis Kucinich is a fan of late-night TV, citing The Tonight Show, Late Show, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Saturday Night Live as his favorites. “When I get a chance to watch TV, it’s usually late in the evening,” he tells TV Guide. “Those shows have brilliant writers. It’s just great...bla bla bla
John McCain lists Prison Break among his favorite TV shows “because as a fellow prisoner, I always dreamed and plotted how I would break out of the Hanoi Hilton,”
Mitt Romney is a fan of Lost because it has “a very captivating plot, and if you live a busy life, escape is always welcome."
No Oprah?
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