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Archive for June, 2008
You remember how every 5 minutes in 2004 we got a TERROR ALERT from Homeland Security, and then after Bush was re-elected the TERROR ALERTs seemed to go away? And then Tom Ridge admitted that at least a few of them were politically motivated?
“The White House said Monday it agreed with an assessment by U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, who warns terrorists could test the next president with an attack.”
The likelihood of this working this time is essentially zero (nobody trusts the party of Katrina and Iraq with their security anymore) but it is a pretty perverse thing for a government to be engaged in. And as cons always do, they will explain this away without batting the eye. Something like only America-haters would oppose the actions of their beloved Commander In Chief or something. Whatever, they’re a sick set of people.
More here.
John McCain mixes up countries again. But he was 7 when Pearl Harbor went down so don’t question his military service.
Or something.
Of all the stupid things related to political coverage that I hate, this is at the top of the list. It is the simplification of politics to the point of a WWE match. Except it doesn’t work that way. The only real win-loss moments are election days, everything else is conjecture by jackasses.
On Fox News, Bill Kristol asserts that McCain simply choosing a running mate will cause gas prices to go down.
Lying down with fleas, etc.
But one McCain supporter, retired Col. Bud Day, who was held prisoner with McCain in Vietnam, said the attacks on McCain were nothing like the swift boat attacks. He helped produce those attacks against Kerry, which were true, he said. The attacks against McCain are not, he added.
‘The swift boat, quote, attacks were simply a revelation of the truth,’ he said. ‘The similarity does not exist here because basically what the Swift Boat campaign was about was to lay out John Kerry’s record.’
And yes I know, Bud Day is a highly decorated veteran. That doesn’t mean he ain’t a liar and an enabler of one of the most dishonest campaigns in U.S. history.
“A federal appeals court has slammed the reliability of U.S. government intelligence documents, saying just because officials keep repeating their assertions does not make them true.
A guard looks over the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in this file photo.
A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington likened the Bush administration’s case to a line in an 1876 nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll: ‘I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.’”
The Cowboys have been America’s Team for three decades. Now it seems like they’re building America’s Most Wanted’s team.
It wasn’t enough for Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to bring in Terrell Owens when Owens was considered the most selfish player in the NFL. He had to bring in serial gun nut Tank Johnson. Then this spring, he acquired cornerback Adam (nee Pacman) Jones, who has been arrested six times. Clearly, Jones is a man who believes in seventh chances.
I’ve got two responses to the right clutching their pearls and fainting because a few people think that while honorable, John McCain’s military service isn’t the end-all and be-all of why he should be commander-in-chief.
KTHXBI.
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Mr. Obama’s Southern strategy relies on significantly increasing black registration and turnout, as he did in the primary season. Mr. Hildebrand said that by some estimates there are 600,000 unregistered black voters in Georgia alone.
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Just a smidge behind Martha Jones in my book
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Enabling the Buy N Large culture
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Real football starts in September
The ongoing story of how the Bush administration sacrificed American and global security to Al Qaeda in order to invade Iraq marches on.
Current and former military and intelligence officials said that the war in Iraq consistently diverted resources and high-level attention from the tribal areas. When American military and intelligence officials requested additional Predator drones to survey the tribal areas, they were told no drones were available because they had been sent to Iraq.
The Bush administration let Al Qaeda grow and fester inside Pakistan, refused to do anything lest they offend Musharraf, and then diverted the resources needed to bring the hammer down on Al Qaeda in order for Bush to exorcise his daddy’s demons by invading and occupying Iraq.
Heck of a job.
Yeah, this is a totally good reason for why we should elect more Republicans: not enough of us are dead yet, apparently.
It’s called not accepting the campaign ads and material as gospel truth.
“He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee. And he has traveled all over the world. But he hasn’t held executive responsibility. That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded — that wasn’t a wartime squadron,” Clark said.
“I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.”
You know, it’s one thing if someone gets an email forward and they believe it because it comes from a trusted authority like their friend. That is understandable. But when it crosses the line into stupidity is when you are given the evidence and are still foolish enough to stick with the misinformation.
A swing voter who entered this election leaning Democratic, Peterson faces a decision that is no longer so simple as a choice between Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain, he said. First, he must pick the version of Obama on which he will stake his vote.
Does he choose to trust a TV commercial in which Obama talks about his “love of country”? Or his neighbor of 40 years, Don LeMaster, a Navy veteran who heard from a friend in Toledo that Obama refuses to wear an American-flag pin?
Does he trust a local newspaper article that details Obama’s Christian faith? Or his friend Leroy Pollard, a devoted family man so convinced Obama is a radical Muslim that he threatened to stop talking to his daughter when he heard she might vote for him?
“I’ll admit that I probably don’t follow all of the election news like maybe I should,” Peterman said. “I haven’t read his books or studied up more than a little bit. But it’s hard to ignore what you hear when everybody you know is saying it. These are good people, smart people, so can they really all be wrong?”
One would have to believe based on this bewilderment that Mr. Peterson also believes the Moon landings were faked and that Martians are stealing his socks. This guy isn’t living in a cave. He has the information in his hands, but because some guy said something he won’t believe the words on the paper.
Stupid.
Pixar does it again. Great story, spectacular visuals, and pretty amazing that the two main characters (Wall-E and Eve) really can’t talk yet do a better job of communicating than 90% of Hollywood. As a side note, I bet this movie does more for the cause of environmentalism than An Inconvenient Truth. The vision of the garbage filled future and the overdrive consumerism of Buy N Large (aka Wal-Mart) is pretty horrific.
Rating: 4.5/5
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nsfw
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Out Of Touch John McCain strikes again
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Movie was great
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This is the kind of stuff that makes Americans think Europe is crazy
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Apparently these scientists have never read a comic book. Cosmic forces are in play.
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God forbid a terrorist attack happens, why would people vote for the GOP? We’ve never been hit by more terrorism than we have under a Republican president.
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Comic book artist of Fathom, Witchblade, etc. Wow.
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But the only people who give a **** are con talk show hosts, plus Dems aren’t going to reinstate it anyway (they shouldn’t)
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“After 50 years of Nasa, and after putting about $100 billion into the space station, we can’t get our own astronauts to our space station without relying on the Russians”
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Funny as hell.
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Whythankyouladies
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Says the law school professor, author and pundit. Glenn Reynolds: when you think you can’t parody something, he opens up his yap.
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classic
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He flip flops like within half an hour. Amazing.
The McCains have not been paying their taxes on their San Diego condo - just one of the many properties purchased with Cindy McCain’s millions, the same millions that fly John McCain around and have financed his long political career.
San Diego County officials, it turns out, have been sending out tax notices on the La Jolla property, an oceanfront condo, for four years without receiving a response. County records show the bills, which were mailed to a Phoenix address associated with Mrs. McCain’s trust, were returned by the post office. According to a McCain campaign aide, who requested anonymity when discussing a private matter, an elderly aunt of Mrs. McCain’s lives in the condo, and the bank that manages the trust has not been receiving tax bills on the property. Shortly after NEWSWEEK inquired about the matter, the McCain aide e-mailed a receipt dated Friday, June 27, confirming payment by the trust to San Diego County in the amount of $6,744.42. County officials say the trust still owes an additional $1,742 for this year, an amount that is overdue and will go into default July 1. Told of the outstanding $1,742, the aide said: “The trust has paid all bills shown owing as of today and will pay all other bills due.”
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For humor, add monkey. Always works.
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Surrender monkeys, anyone? I mean, come on.
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