Molly Ivins: Freepers React

9:12 pm EST January 31st, 2007 | News | 48 Comments

I’ve wondered how I would react if we tried Murtha and Kerry for treason and hanged them. I’d be satisfied to say the least.

She has been freed of this Earth, and we have been freed of her.

She knows who’s right now.

Does this mean I can go to the Orange Bowl now?

Molly Irvins officially determined to be “In the Past”.

Now you know, Molly. Now you know.

Prayers for a death bed conversion.

…with a smerk on her face, most likely.

I, for one, will not be missing her. Sorry.

I also say RIP. I do hope she found God before she died and asked him to forgive the bitter hate she carried against our beloved President.

RIP you Al-Queda lover liberal.

Chris Rock: I Think I Love My Wife

7:32 pm EST January 31st, 2007 | Movies | 1 Comment

Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place. (Rock, who is a great standup has made some awful movies. I wonder if this one will break the curse?) The temptation in question is Kerry Washington, who was quite good in The Last King of Scotland.

Molly Ivins Has Died

7:17 pm EST January 31st, 2007 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

For a long time, before the blogs and such, she was one of the few liberal voices outside of the DC establishment who occasionally cracked through to the mainstream press.

Best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins, the sharp-witted liberal who skewered the political establishment and referred to President Bush as “Shrub,” died Wednesday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 62.

Topic: Liberals

Do Conservatives Know Average People?

4:53 pm EST January 31st, 2007 | Republicans | 40 Comments

Former Reagan administration official and CNBC host Larry Kudlow writes in the National Review about cheers and applause for Bush on the floor of the NYSE. Kudlow takes this to mean somehow that everyone else is wrong on Bush’s poor economic record and horrid job performance.

What kind of world is it you inhabit when the beyond very well to do traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange share anything remotely in common with the average American beyond living in the same country and breathing the same air?

Kudlow further says that Bush got applause because of 9/11. Okay, tell him to go to Harlem or even Manhattan and see if the response is the same as it is from very very rich stockbrokers.

Joe Biden Is A Farking Idiot

11:57 am EST January 31st, 2007 | News | 104 Comments

His presidential campaign is the Titanic. His idiot mouth has killed it.

UPDATE: The audio of Biden’s comments are out and they don’t change a thing. What he said was racist, offensive, and not representing any of the qualities of the Democratic party or America.

Topic: 2008 Election

Deja Vu

2:51 am EST January 31st, 2007 | News | 49 Comments

Fox: “Officials: White House Holding Back Report Detailing Iran’s Meddling in Iraq”
CNN: “Iran involvement suspected in Karbala compound attack”

I heard these things (or allegations similar to them) about Iraq in the Summer of 2002 and throughout the campaign leading up to the war in March of 2003. They were not true. The intelligence was cooked. I was skeptical then, and one thousand times more so now.

I do not believe this.

Topic: Iran

Miracle

7:56 pm EST January 30th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 22 Comments

So I have a family history of diabetes. A strong – in a bad way – history. My mother has it, as do my grandparents on her side, as well as one of my cousins. So it was no surprise when I recently went to the doctor that he said I too was diabetic, and pretty badly so.

I take medicine for it now and after I started taking the pills I realized I was having trouble reading text. I’m nearsighted, so the fact that I was having trouble reading a book just a couple inches away from my face scared me. One of the known side effects of diabetes, of course, is loss of vision. I worried that either that was the case or that my contact lenses needed a change in prescription.

My blood sugar was still too high, according to my doctor, so he increased my dosage of medicine. So yesterday I went to work and when I get there I can’t even read my monitor properly it’s so blurry. I figure I have to go to get my prescription fixed ASAP.

Then it dawns on me. Something weird is going on here. I take out my contacts when I get home.

I can see. In fact, the contacts were having the effect of putting on someone’s way too strong prescription glasses on and distorting everything. I’ve been wearing glasses since I was about 9 years old – 20 years – and for the first time in a long time I can see things properly without them. I can see the tv. I can see the computer monitor. I can read relatively small type over several feet away (it’s not Superman-level telescopic vision but it’s better than looking at letters in blobs).

I realize now that this is a side effect of my now-lowered blood sugar level, and I still need my vision corrected but I’ve had about 70% improvement in my eyesight over a three week or so period.

This, friends, is pretty freaking cool.

Clearly the next step is super powers of some sort. Perhaps I’m having an origin.

Topic: Oliver's World

Teh Gay On MySpace!!!!

6:57 pm EST January 30th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Those wacky religious right morons. Now they’re worried that gays are taking over social networks.

Pro-family activist Peter LaBarbera devotes his efforts to monitoring the influence of the homosexual agenda on American culture. He says a recent study of social network website usage is proof that technology has been one of the primary tools used by the homosexual community to organize and to promote its immoral lifestyle.

Be afraid, all your MySpace friends might give you “teh ghey”.

Topic: Religious Right

Obama ’08: All In

6:18 pm EST January 30th, 2007 | News | 3 Comments

Barack Obama calls for an end to the Iraq mess by March ’08.

The Obama plan offers a responsible yet effective alternative to the President’s failed policy of escalation. Realizing there can be no military solution in Iraq, it focuses instead on reaching a political solution in Iraq, protecting our interests in the region, and bringing this war to a responsible end. The legislation commences redeployment of U.S. forces no later than May 1, 2007 with the goal of removing all combat brigades from Iraq by March 31, 2008, a date that is consistent with the expectation of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group.

Topic: President Obama