Keep It Up, Newt

3:26 pm EST November 29th, 2006 | Politics | 7 Comments

Raising the bar for wingnuttery as he so often does, Newt Gingrich urges that we should curtail the first amendment to “fight terrorism”. AKA, give terror exactly what it wants. Moron.

The Tancredo Boys Strike Again

12:54 pm EST November 29th, 2006 | Politics | 8 Comments

Tom Tancredo and his virulently anti-Hispanic minions are making a strong bid to completely take over the GOP. With this kind of honesty, they’re on their way:

Miami is “as bad as any ghetto in any Third World country,” says Carlos Espinosa, spokesman for Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), who stands by his earlier comments comparing Miami to a “Third World Country.”

That’s right Republicans, give in to the hate, slam the brown-skinned hordes in one of America’s major metropolitan regions.

Play Fristy For Me

10:54 am EST November 29th, 2006 | News | 59 Comments

Sadly, Bill Fristwon’t be running for President. Too bad, the moron would have been entertaining.

Frist was of course famous for making a medical diagnosis of Terri Schiavo using video tape.

Topic: 2008 Election

The Truth #2

5:26 am EST November 29th, 2006 | Politics | 17 Comments

The election
Straw poll results
My weiner… dog
Why Maxim sucks now
My birthday next week
Stuff the media freaks out about but normal people don’t care about
Republicans learning the wrong lesson of 2006: Yay!

Topic: Oliver's World, Video

Go Webb

11:08 pm EST November 28th, 2006 | News | 97 Comments

Democratic senator-elect Jim Webb is rising to the occasion already.

At a private reception held at the White House with newly elected lawmakers shortly after the election, Bush asked Webb how his son, a Marine lance corporal serving in Iraq, was doing.

Webb responded that he really wanted to see his son brought back home, said a person who heard about the exchange from Webb.

“I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing,” Bush retorted, according to the source.

Webb confessed that he was so angered by this that he was tempted to slug the commander-in-chief, reported the source, but of course didn’t. It’s safe to say, however, that Bush and Webb won’t be taking any overseas trips together anytime soon.

It’s always funny how prickly and put-off Bush acts when somebody dares to pierce his idiotic little bubble his mommy and daddy created for him where nobody says anything bad about him and he’s the bestest president ever.

Topic: George W. Bush

The First Law Of Malkin

10:54 pm EST November 28th, 2006 | News | 87 Comments

Malkinscrazyface To paraphrase someone:

Michelle Malkin, we must begin to understand, has no fucking idea what she’s talking about at any given moment.

Bob Geiger on the most recent infraction against sanity:

And here we have so many conservative bloggers, after days of castigating the Associated Press for running what the wingnuts claimed was a fictitious story about six Sunnis being burned alive in sectarian violence in Iraq on Friday, having to once again face what a bunch of putzes they really are.

The AP is reporting tonight on eyewitnesses to the immolations, that occurred when Sunni worshippers were leaving a Mosque on Friday and have also substantiated the identity of Iraqi police Capt. Jamil Hussein, who the AP cited as the primary source for its story that the Sunnis were killed while the Iraqi military stood by and did nothing.

This is not an isolated incident folks, this happens all the time. During the run-up to this year’s elections I had to ask if I was crazy or what for not seeing the same reality the conservatives swore up and down that they were seeing. They claimed that the polls were rigged, that the media was engaged in a conspiracy with the Democrats, and that the Republicans would hold the House and Senate. They said this when someone could have dropped in from Mars, looked at the numbers and told Dennis Hastert to clean out his Speaker’s desk and wipe up the slime trail behind him. But like they did with Iraq, Katrina, Terri Schiavo, and any of five million issues over the last ten years the right was wrong.

No, not just “wrong”. Amazingly, freakishly, mind-numblingly wrong.

And what penalty do they suffer for this? Does the press ostracize them or alienate them? No, they put people on the air who actively hate all Muslims as some kind of expert on Islam. They ask women with the intellectual strength and honesty of a moth (I don’t mean to insult moths, actually) to comment on war and immigration and the most important issues of the day!

They are wrong in everything they do. They will be wrong until the cows come home, and even then they will see goats where there are only cows.

Video Game Update

8:16 pm EST November 28th, 2006 | Uncategorized | 7 Comments

So I bit the bullet and ignored the PS3/Wii hype (and smashed tv sets) and went ahead and bought the XBox 360.

In addition to the obligatory purchase of Madden 2007, I got the Superman game. Let me just say this: You can fly above Metropolis and go so fast that you cause a sonic boom. This is worth the cost of the entire game system to a Superman fanatic like me.

Topic: Oliver's World

When The Religious Far Right Attacks

7:20 pm EST November 28th, 2006 | Uncategorized | 10 Comments

The always idiotic Dennis Prager gets his panties in a twist because an elected official who is a Muslim won’t bow down to the haters.

Topic: Religious Right

Congressional Black Caucus: On The Wrong Side

6:43 pm EST November 28th, 2006 | Politics | 6 Comments

What is up with the Congressional Black Caucus? Apparently more so than any other of the Democratic coalition, the CBC favors the old and in power over the good. They supported Alcee Hasting’s nomination when everyone else said it was dead in the water (it is), and made noise about Rep. Pelosi stripping crooked William Jefferson of his committee assignments. Now, the CBC is among the biggest donors to Jefferson’s re-election race to the tune of $5,000. Shouldn’t the CBC, if it were true to its purpose, be supporting his challenger Karen Carter (like the Louisiana Dems do)?

Duck Durbin Has An Obama Mancrush

6:36 pm EST November 28th, 2006 | News | 10 Comments

That’s the only way you can explain this.

On Monday, one of Obama’s biggest boosters, Sen. Dick Durbin, launched an online petition urging his fellow Illinois Dem to run for president. In a message emailed to supporters and posted on his campaign Web site, Durbin giddily professes to be a “huge Barack Obama fan” and says the junior senator has what it takes for the White House. In an open letter to Obama, Durbin writes, “You are the right man to lead our country at a time of such turmoil around the globe, bringing Americans together at a time in our nation’s history when we need unity more than ever- That is why I hope you will run for president in 2008.”

Topic: President Obama