GOP Waaaahmbulance Is GO!

11:25 am EST June 30th, 2008 | Republicans | 46 Comments

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.

GOP convention purple heart bandage

KTHXBI.

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8:31 am EST June 30th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments

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Republicans Soft On Terror

11:35 pm EST June 29th, 2008 | News | 68 Comments

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.

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Wes Clark On McCain’s Military Record

11:26 pm EST June 29th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 36 Comments

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.”

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I’m Sorry, You Are Stupid

11:17 pm EST June 29th, 2008 | Media, Politics | 12 Comments

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.

 

The Clinton “Kiss My Ass” Story

10:23 am EST June 29th, 2008 | Media | 12 Comments

Interestingly the story uses that quote in the headline, but nowhere in the story does it quote President Clinton directly saying it. In fact it is a quote from “friends”. The Daily Telegraph is using National Enquirer rules on this story.

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Wall-E

8:56 am EST June 29th, 2008 | Movies | 5 Comments

Wall-E

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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8:31 am EST June 29th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 37 Comments

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McCain: Taxes For Thee, Not For Me

10:50 pm EST June 28th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 39 Comments

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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8:31 am EST June 28th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

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