Thursday, August 28, 2008
Not Like Me and Thee
Not Like Me and Thee
a breed apart
Or is it a species? Not that I expect the RNC delegates to be much saner.... Though possibly better dressed, being white, raaacist handmaidens of Big Oil and all…
DemoCon Delegates:
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Numbered for your captioning pleasure.
Blame 
Bohica
History Has Nothing to Teach Us.
*pfaff*
The tonguebath “interviews” of the Uh-bamas are startling in their overtness, though I suppose outright fear of having one’s head removed for displeasing Michelle is some sort of lame, weak defense…
["NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian] Williams awkwardly prompted Obama to expound on how historic it would be for her husband to move into the White House: “ How do you begin to wrap your head around the bigger picture of, if you’re successful, you’ll move into a house where, when the Adams’ moved in...slaves were finishing the plaster over the fireplace?” To this, Mrs. Obama remarked, “Oh, I don’t go there too much. That’s a lot. I mean, I’m aware of that history."
As that particular Executive Mansion was burned by the British in 1814 and only the exterior walls remained, I imagine his point was more a feeeeeling one…
But being a dumb, bitter clinger who is expected not to “get” the whole Ayers association story, I suppose that was raaaacistly inseeensitive of me.
Misoverestimated
and what about the Bradley Effect?
Newly crowned Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama‘s lead over Republican John McCain in California has narrowed somewhat over the past month, a new poll conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California shows. ...[from] 50 percent to 35 percent [to] 48 percent to 39 percent
That ain’t even a dead cat bounce.
Barack Obama heads into his convention with a lead of no more than one to three points in most polls (a statistical dead heat) and at least one suggests he is now the underdog.
A Zogby poll on 20 August put Barack Obama five points behind his Republican rival, reversing the seven-point lead the pollster had given him the month before.
The Gallup Daily Tracking Poll on Thursday showed the Democratic presidential nominee up 6 points over rival John McCain, 48 to 42 percent, with a 2-point margin of error.
All that work all that hype, all that drama, all that set-building for a lousy 6 points?!? +/- 2???!?
Is this meaningful? Are polls useful indicators? Are people so sick of ‘em they’re foxing the pollsters?
Misoverestimated
and what about the Bradley Effect?
Newly crowned Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama‘s lead over Republican John McCain in California has narrowed somewhat over the past month, a new poll conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California shows. ...[from] 50 percent to 35 percent [to] 48 percent to 39 percent
That ain’t even a dead cat bounce.
Barack Obama heads into his convention with a lead of no more than one to three points in most polls (a statistical dead heat) and at least one suggests he is now the underdog.
A Zogby poll on 20 August put Barack Obama five points behind his Republican rival, reversing the seven-point lead the pollster had given him the month before.
The Gallup Daily Tracking Poll on Thursday showed the Democratic presidential nominee up 6 points over rival John McCain, 48 to 42 percent, with a 2-point margin of error.
All that work all that hype, all that drama, all that set-building for a lousy 6 points?!? +/- 2???!?
Is this meaningful? Are polls useful indicators? Are people so sick of ‘em they’re foxing the pollsters?
Oil $$ UP! RNCon Coverage *poof*
Chimpy Mc Bushitlerweathercontroller strikes again!
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Release the Annenberg Documents!
what’s he so askeert of, anyway?
Something is spoiling The One’s moment in the Son sun today: the specter of Bill Ayers.
Although Obama actually launched his political career at an event at Ayers’s and Dohrn’s home, Obama has dismissed Ayers as just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” and “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” For his part, Ayers refuses to discuss his relationship with Obama.
...With Obama heading up the board and Ayers heading up the other key operating body of the Annenberg Challenge, the two would necessarily have had a close working relationship for years ...
Stanley Kurtz of NRO [quoted above] was on WGN radio to discuss his frustrated attempts to examine the documents from the Annenberg Challenge—one of Uh-bama’s and Ayers closest ties.
Uh-bambi’s Chi-Town-style reaction? Call out the flying Bama’tards!
Weak, Barry. Very weak. Well, that’s what happens when ya have the judgement to select a Plouffe* for your manager.
In addition, the minute the McCain campaign oh, wait… It was an independant 501(c)(4) entity, American Issues Project that raised the Ayers issue.
The B-rock’s response was to, again, call out the Flying Bama’tards.
Obama has responded to the ad the way liberals often react to free speech that they don’t like: he is trying to shut it down… Obama’s spokesmen didn’t explain what about the ad is false, let alone despicable or outrageous. Every word in the ad is true. I suspect that “despicable” and “outrageous” are synonymous with “effective."
Then he pulled out the Big Guns.
“We reiterate our request that the Department of Justice fulfill its commitment to take prompt action to investigate and to prosecute the American issues Project, and we further request that the Department of Justice investigate and prosecute Howard (sic) Simmons for a knowing and willful violation of the individual aggregate contribution limits,” [Obama general counsel Bob Bauer*] wrote.
[clearly not related to Jack...]
And we thought Hillary!’s FBI files were discomfiting… There wasn’t as much reactionary flopping about for the Jeremiah Wright tapes. Those were a lot more “sound-bite-able” and therefore accessible to the average voter. So why the Panic about the Ayers connection which requires a lot longer attention span to even make sense? Buried treasure? Or Distraction from *something else*?
So the QOTD is BarryBoy, whatchew so askeert of?
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Way more here: Global Labor
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*Plouffe—rhymes with “fluff"—a strange, yet common political bird.
Gentlemanly.
this unfamiliar thing is bound to puzzle the living hell outta the Uh-bama-nuts
OR *clicky*clicky*
EU Respekt
better’n a drinking game...
Ahead of Barack Obama’s democratic nomination acceptance speech in Denver this Thursday, Irish bookmaker Paddy Power have released a wide range of betting opportunities on the Presidential hopeful’s performance.
At least ya can win a bit of coin.
10/1 Time for Change
12/1 I’d like to thank my wife
12/1 As I stand here today
12/1 Fundamental belief
12/1 Defining moment
12/1 God Bless America
14/1 Let me be clear
14/1 War on terror
14/1 Politics of hope
14/1 Common purpose
16/1 Crossroads of history
16/1 I have a dream
16/1 Pursuit of happiness
16/1 I’m fired up
16/1 Building a better America
18/1 My civil liberties
18/1 Same old politics
18/1 Core Values
18/1 Hungry for change
18/1 It won’t be easy
20/1 Honor for me
20/1 Safe from harm
20/1 Don’t get me wrong
20/1 Decent shot at life
20/1 They said this day would never come
20/1 Change is coming to America
25/1 There are better days ahead
25/1 Challenges that face us
25/1 Make Washington work
25/1 Hard to believe
25/1 We cannot lose hope
25/1 We can be one people
25/1 We’ll have to make hard choices
100/1 Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
100/1 An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind
250/1 Let’s get ready to rumble
250/1 Life is like a box of chocolates
500/1 Always bet on black!
In his victory speech in South Carolina he said the word “change” almost once every minute. How many times will Barack mention change during his acceptance speech on Thursday?
20/1 None
8/1 1 - 5 Times
4/1 6 - 10 Times
3/1 11 - 15 Times
2/1 16 - 20 Times
7/4 Over 20 Times
Who will the TV cameras cut to most during Obama’s acceptance speech on
Thursday?5/4 Oprah
4/1 George Clooney
6/1 Robert DeNiro
8/1 Will.I.Am
10/1 Samuel L Jackson
12/1 Jennifer Aniston
14/1 Scarlett Johansson
16/1 Ben Affleck
18/1 Eva Longoria
20/1 Chris Rock
20/1 Cameron Diaz
25/1 Jessica Alba
25/1 P Diddy
50/1 Paris Hilton
500/1 Rev Jeremiah Wright
I note that Billary didn’t even make the odds…
I'd Say We Already Have the Ham...
and he’s plenty cheezy
[George Will:] ...Obama’s rhetorical extravagances are inversely proportional to his details, as when he promises “nothing less than a complete transformation of our economy” in order to “end the age of oil.” The diminished enthusiasm of some voters hitherto receptive to his appeals might have something to do with the seepage of reality from his rhetoric. Voters understand that neither the “transformation” nor the “end” will or should occur. His dreamy certitude that “alternative” fuels will quickly become real alternatives is an energy policy akin to an old vaudeville joke: “If we had some eggs, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some ham.” ...
Yep. This’ll “restore America’s image” in the eyes of the oh-so-sophisticated EUs…
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Progressive "Thinking" [UPDATED with Correction]
ungovernable
Everybody jokes about “TMI” these days:...
But the implications for our democracy are troubling. To achieve their goals, political movements need to reach and influence tens of millions of citizens. Despite conventional thinking that the Internet helps spread information, such reach is actually impossible online.
Consider: In August 2007, there were about 100 million blogs. Of those that reached 100,000 people or more in a month, only about 20 focused on news or politics, according to ComScore Media Metrix, a company that measures Internet traffic. The most popular was Breitbart.com, with only 1.1 million unique visitors, or 0.4 percent of the 228 million U.S. adults 18 and older.
Moreover, visitors to blogs and Web sites probably don’t see most of the information on them. According to Nielsen Online, the average visitor to newspaper Web sites stops by for just 1.5 minutes per day on average. By contrast, the average print newspaper reader spends 40 minutes with each day’s edition…
the larger problem: The overload siphons audiences and revenue from newspapers such as The Post and other outlets that can spread important information, forcing these media to shrink and to rely increasingly on advertising to stay afloat. These trends predate the Internet era, but they’ve gotten worse.
And that there’s your real problem iddn’t it, Binky? Your job security.
The opportunity to educate millions of citizens, so essential to significant movements of the past, has dwindled. In the early New Deal era, the Roman Catholic “radio priest” Father Charles Coughlin [the stone Socialist] promoted ideas for economic reform to a weekly audience estimated at 40 million, which helped pressure President Franklin D. Roosevelt to enact Social Security, the Works Progress Administration and other programs. Today’s top talk-radio host, Rush Limbaugh, reaches only about 14 million people per week.
Without broad media coverage, the civil rights movement might never have succeeded. In 1965, front-page newspaper coverage of the bloody march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., helped push Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act, [despite the objections of the *Democratic* Party]...
[Paraphrased verbosity: Newspaper
readershipsales down from one paper for every two adults to one paper for every 4.5 adults… TV Nooz viewership down from 32 percent of the adult population to 12 percent of the adult population]...The challenge is to find ways to strengthen democracy in the era of TMI. It won’t be easy, but the situation may not be irreversible, either.
Oh! I see. You’re trying to strengthen democracy, here, eh? So what’s your proposal to make us all more Free?
Rather than call for government regulation of technology itself, perhaps the best way to limit the avalanche is to make the technologies that overproduce information more expensive and less widespread. It could be done via a progressive energy tax designed to keep energy prices at a consistently high level (while providing assistance to lower- and middle-income Americans).
... If Americans are finally giving up SUVs because of high oil prices [*if*??!! nice “argument,” Pal. Epic Debate Society Fail], might we not eventually do the same with some information technologies that only seem to fragment our society, not unite it? [on his planet, Unite = Soylent Green whaaa? it’s greeeen, iddn’t it?!] A reduced supply of information technology might at least gradually cause us to gravitate toward community-centered media such as local newspapers instead of the hyper-individualistic outlets we have now.
[Sitting in my 800sf high-rise in a walkable comuuuunity, listening to the Smart Train rumble by and digesting “community-centered media”... Kill me. Kill me now.]
According to a site I found in on teh InnerToobs in 0.13 seconds, an average laptop uses about 105 watts 15-45 watts [as corrected by the author of the post *blushes*]—a regular dim bulb. A super-dooper high-end gaming desktop with a CRT monitor [why?] would use 330 watts. So running a laptop about 20 hours a week @ 10¢/kWh would cost a whopping $11 $3.12 a year. Just how dam expensive does this douche want to make electricity to wipe us hyper-individualistic outlets off his planet and return his job security?
Change will no doubt be difficult [that’s not what Uh-bama said!], and it won’t happen overnight [that’s not what Uh-bama saaaid!]. But it’s time for some creative solutions for digging our democracy out of the information avalanche that threatens to smother it. [yeah. It’s definitely too much Liberty that’s doing the “smothering."]
‘Course if I had thought processes as stunted as his, I’d be worried, too.
I goofed. A laptop, according to Michael Bluejay of Saving Electricity uses 15-45 watts.
So, using the formula, [Watts X Hours Used / 1000] X Cost per kWh = Cost, I’ll use a mid range 30 watts X 20 hours/wk or 1,040/yr [31,200] /1000 [31.2] X cost of 10¢ per kWh to arrive at a whopping $3.12 a year to run an average laptop.
Thank you to Mr Bluejay for catching my goof!
Fairness Doctrine Ahoy!
smack ‘em harder—they like it!
A reporter with Brian Ross’s investigative team at ABC News was arrested today for taking pictures of Democratic Senators and VIP donors as they left a private meeting at the Brown’s Palace Hotel in Denver. [on a public sidewalk]
... charges of trespass, interference, and failure to follow a lawful order. ... cameraman captured it all.
... investigating the role of corporate lobbyists and wealthy donors at the convention for a series of Money Trail reports. [...the arrest followed a signed complaint from the Brown Palace Hotel.]
oops.
[I’m so cornfuzzed: izzat right-wing fascism or raaacism?]
Somebody asked me this morning...
yep
Good work, too.*
*and bonus Creepiest Shot Evah
*ie, NOT Nancy’s discount chop-shop and taco parlour.....
It's a Cultural Thang...
Hog Alert
[Otis] Hensley said he was grocery shopping at Don’s Supersaver in Harlan [KY] when he saw the two girls and their grandmother.
“The one girl turned around and looked at me and smiled,” Hensley said. “I said ’Ma’am, do you want to trade them girls for a good fattening hog?‘ and then I went on into the meat department. That was all that was said.”
...
Harlan County sheriff’s deputies arrested Hensley about 6 p.m. Monday. He is charged with first-degree unlawful transaction with a minor, a Class B felony that can carry a sentence of 10 years to 20 years. [[the] two-time candidate for governor ... is charged with attempting to “entice” a 13-year-old girl and her 11-year-old sister to engage in “illegal sexual activity”]
Hensley is being held in the Harlan County Detention Center on a $15,000 cash bond. Jail officials say he is in a cell separate from the general jail population for safety reasons.
He has not yet appeared in court and he said he has not seen the charges against him.
Oh, fercryinoutloud…
UNITY!!
the Party that can Force Amerikkka to Come Together!
"It’s like ‘Thanks, madam speaker, you’ve done quite enough. Please move along,’” says one Obama adviser. “She got us stuck on three different issues that we wanted no part of. She’s no master strategist, no matter what she may believe. You may see more of her, but if her mouth is open, what comes out won’t be anything that our campaign wants anything to do with.”
According to several House Democrat leadership staffers, Pelosi grew increasingly angry several months ago that she was not being given a strategic role in directing the Democrat convention or being actively sought out by the Obama campaign for advice. “She made a point that she was queen of the far left, which was the group that really helped Obama get to where he was,” says Democrat leadership staffer, adding, “She didn’t call herself a queen, but you get the point, and so did the Obama people."
Two Heartbeats....
ToDaZeD Pick yer Poison, Boyz!
Scotch, Pepto-Bismol or Alka-Seltzer?
How to ameliorate the effects of this week’s nightly gubbmint-media Lurve-fest:
*mouths ‘I love You!’*
Take a drink every time the Republicans are blamed for high gas prices, the weak economy, or America’s loss in Olympic softball....
Take a drink every time TV commentators say the words “punditry,” “blogosphere,” or “Obamania.”
Take a drink if you’ve heard of Senators Jeff Bingaman, Maria Cantwell, Dean Burgess, or Amy Klobuchar. Take another if you knew that there is no Dean Burgess in the Senate....
Take a drink every time Obama stands in the light in such a way as to make you believe his skin color is a mix of red, white and blue....
Take a drink if you see Jesse Jackson trying to get a peek at the convention through an air conditioning vent.
Take a drink if--when--the crowd screams for a Harry Reid encore.
Take a drink every time Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper humiliates a Republican...also known as “getting Hickenloopered.”...
Take a drink every time John Edwards shouts into a megaphone outside the Pepsi Center that he only had sex with Rielle Hunter when his wife’s cancer was in remission.
*hic*urp*
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