Conservative Humor Fails Again

4:20 pm EST July 30th, 2007 | News | 10 Comments

Can we take up a collection and send Joke Writing For Dummies to the crew of Fox’s Half Hour News Hour? There’s tons of material there for Hillary Clinton jokes, why does Fox fail to make them FUNNY?

Topic: Fox News

Department Of Pre-Slime

2:11 pm EST July 30th, 2007 | Media | 15 Comments

There’s no need for the RNC to launch ridiculous attacks on Democrats like John Edwards anymore, the press just does it for them.

7.29.07 News Links

12:01 am EST July 30th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Breaking News links for 7.29.07

President Bush Has Connection To MLB Steroid Scandal

Heil Brangelina: Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie Moving To Germany

Shia LaBeouf Begs Media To Find Dirt On Him

Plastic Surgeon Says Kim Kardashian Doesn’t Have Butt Implants

Sean Hannity’s “Freedom Concert” A Bust

DC Metro Closed After Dead Birds Found

Simpsons #1 With $71.8 Million Weekend

Man Builds 97 Foot Treehouse After Vision From God

Iran Laughs At U.S. For Being Stretched Thin In Iraq

Bush Admin. Blocked Health Report For Political Gain

Israel Gets Big Bucks As U.S. Increases Aid

Houses Abandoned As Housing Bubble Pops

Sex Harassment Case Could Be Trouble For Mike Bloomberg

Lindsay Lohan: Too Risky To Be In Movies?

Gunfire As Iraq Wins Soccer Tournament

Jeri Thompson Taking Over Fred Thompson’s Campaign

NY Times Calls For Impeachment Of Alberto Gonzales

Topic: Links

Rudy Giuliani’s Tax Lie

11:50 am EST July 29th, 2007 | News | 21 Comments

Tell the truth, Mr. Ferret.

Topic: Rudy Giuliani

Some People Have Mecca, Others Have Jerusalem, And Some Have Jessica Alba

11:21 pm EST July 28th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 10 Comments

She makes a splash at Comic-Con.

Blocking out screams of "Jessica, I love you!" and a flurry of camera flashes from the surrounding crowd, many approached the experience in a businesslike manner.

"Nice to meet you. You’re very beautiful. You can put it to Gonzo please," said Gonzalo Sanchez of Spring Valley, Calif., moving right along.

A typical exchange went as follows:

"Hello Jessica."

"How are you?" she would reply.

"I’m good. Nice to meet you."

"What’s your name?"

"Kevin."

Timothy Sexton of Arizona said he was celebrating his birthday, and gave Alba a plush red bear.

Some nerve-wracked fans simply stared. One confessed to having "a little butterflies," while another, when asked by Alba how he was doing, was only able to manage a garbled, "wegslent."

We are all "Wegslent".

(via)

Topic: Women

Justice Gonzales??

9:30 pm EST July 28th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Do you remember that Alberto Gonzales was on the “short list” of Supreme Court nominees for the Bush administration? Holy cow, did we dodge a bullet.

Somewhere Janet Reno and John Ashcroft are adding Gonzo their Christmas card lists for making them both look so much better at their jobs in retrospect. Ashcroft was a snoopy prude but at least the man at least pretended to understand the constitution and that he has to answer a U.S. senator when he’s asked a question!

Topic: U.S. Attorney Scandal

The DLC Is Dead, Thank God

9:25 pm EST July 28th, 2007 | Democrats | 3 Comments

Noam Scheiber of The New Republic (!) pens an obituary for the DLC that describes moderate-liberals like myself perfectly.

Today, the council has almost no constituency within the Democratic Party. About every five years, the Pew Research Center conducts a public opinion survey to sort out the country’s major ideological groupings. In 1999, Pew found that liberals and New Democrats each accounted for nearly one-quarter of the Democratic base. By the next survey in 2005, New Democrats had completely disappeared as a group and the liberals had doubled their share of the party. Many moderates, radicalized by President Bush, now define themselves as liberals.

Contrary to the popular caricature of me, I am far from a diehard liberal ideologue. Within the Democratic caucus my position on issue after issue trends from moderate to conservative, especially on military issues, crime, and education. And while my social positions are to the left of the mainstream (I think gays should be allowed to get married, think marijuana should be legal, am against unfettered access to guns), the DLC who I at least may have agreed with on some issues in the past (NAFTA, for instance, which I still kind of support) they just sound like idiots now, telling Democrats that the way to win is to act like Republicans. Especially since that formula is exactly why Democrats were in the minority and out of the White House.

Possible War Crime In Iraq

12:32 am EST July 28th, 2007 | News | 15 Comments

‘AJC’: Document Suggests Soldier Shot Iraqi Detainee Under Orders.

An Army document reportedly says a Georgia soldier charged with murdering a detainee in Iraq shot the man under orders from a sergeant.

The story is in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Specialist Christopher P. Shore of Winder, Georgia, and Sergeant First Class Trey A. Corrales of San Antonio are charged with premeditated murder.

The case involves the June 23rd slaying of an unidentified man near Kirkuk.

The newspaper obtained the Army document charging the soldiers by e-mail from Iraq.

The military did not immediately reply to an e-mail request for the document by The Associated Press.

The charge sheet says Corrales shot the detainee before "directing his subordinate, Specialist Christopher P. Shore, to then shoot the detainee."

Lieutenant Colonel Michael Browder was relieved of his command in connection with the investigation. he military has said Browder is not a suspect and has not been charged.

Topic: Iraq

Jeri Thompson Continues Her Decimation Of Fred Thompson’s Campaign Team

12:17 am EST July 28th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 13 Comments

Because she’s a Republican, the media will never treat Jeri Thompson in the same shameful manner they have Hillary Clinton, but the Not Ready For Primetime Campaign of Hollywood actor Fred Thompson had yet another person jump ship.

Another aide to Fred Thompson’s campaign-in-waiting resigned last night, two sources close to the campaign confirm. Tom Frechette had been effectively serving as campaign manager Tom Collamore’s deputy. Collamore was removed from his post Tuesday and given a "senior adviser" role. Like Collamore, Frechhette was said to have chafed under the heavy influence of Thompson’s wife, Jeri.

If he were a Democrat, they’d already be writing his obituary, but Thompson is a Republican so the media has decided that his inept campaign is demonstrating genuine leadership.

Topic: Fred Thompson

Serving Their Masters

12:11 am EST July 28th, 2007 | News | 3 Comments

Right-wing bloggers like The Captain’s Quarters get personal talking points from the White House on executive privilege, also known as the administration covering its rear in the Alberto Gonzales Affair.