This explains his total failure. Sort of. As in, not at all.
Archive for April, 2008
The Washington Redskins cheerleaders were brought in to show India’s cricket fans how to shake their pompoms — but not everyone was impressed.
The New Delhi team said Wednesday it was switching its cheerleaders for a band of drummers. Mumbai politicians have forced theirs to cover up, saying their performances were lewd and not appropriate for India’s traditional culture.
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The backlash began in Mumbai last week when lawmakers from the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party pressed to get cheerleaders banned from the home games of the local team, the Mumbai Indians.
“See the pictures of these girls in the newspapers? This is not something you can allow inside your house, or something that you can look at in the presence of your sister or daughter,” said Nitin Gadkari, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s president for the state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is its capital.
“It may be a good thing for America, for the U.S.A., it’s not a good thing for India, for our kind of culture,” Gadkari said.
Police vowed to keep scantily clad dancers out of public view.
“We will take action,” said Mumbai police officer Ramrao Wagh. “The government has said it will not allow obscenities on the field.” He did not elaborate.
Grog say Havertini a steal in third round!!!
One of the great things the world of the Internet and blogs has brought us is a large needle with which to deflate the self appointed experts in the press. This deflation usually occurs by researching what they say. In this case ESPN’s draft experts did no better than 5.93%-6.67% accuracy in forecasting the draft.
In other words ESPN could spice up the 2009 draft and make it more entertaining by bringing in an army of gorillas. Seriously, you tell me that you wouldn’t watch 5-7 hours of NYC mayhem perpetrated by gorillas with occasional appearances from future NFL players?
I’m so there.
Looks nice, but not OMG WOW.
Because you know nothing is better with our national parks than gun toting jackassery.
The Bush administration formally proposed Wednesday to scrap a longtime ban against bringing loaded weapons into national parks and wildlife areas.
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced the beginning of a 60-day public comment period on the proposed update to the nation’s gun regulations.
Under the plan, an individual could carry a concealed weapon in national parks and wildlife refuges if he or she is authorized to do so on similar state lands in the state where the national park or refuge is located.
I guess its an improvement over the Republican idea to drill the national parks for oil. But not much of one.
NBC’s Washington bureau chief has banned Arianna Huffington appearing on any NBC shows discussing her new book because she criticized him for his obvious stupidity. Sad.
Cue the whining.
Michelle Malkin made her name calling every hispanic a terrorist or declaring that it was right to intern Japanese Americans during WWII, and now she’s decided to join the rest of the bigoted GOPers in attacking Barack Obama for being black. Her latest syndicated column is titled “Jive Talk Expressk“. The column is most of the same warmed-over nonsense about how Obama is a secret black nationalist who wants to kill us all, and it ends saying “You be trippin’, Barry.” Because he’s BLACK, you see. Be very afraid.
In case you were wondering that in the midst of all the drama on the Democratic side of the aisle it was possible for the Republican party to remain brain dead on the seminal issues of our time… wonder no more.
Sen. John McCain on Tuesday rejected calls by his Democratic opponents for universal health coverage, instead offering a market-based solution with an approach similar to a proposal put forth by President Bush last year.McCain’s belief in the power of the free market to meet the nation’s health-care needs sets up a stark choice for voters this fall in terms of the care they could receive, the role the government would play and the importance they place on the issue.
The Republicans largely really believe some of this bull about the free market. They really think in their heart of hearts that the solution for every issue is to sprinkle some of that magical “free market” fairy dust and all will be well. The problem is, that is not what Americans feel. Oh sure, we’re willing to give the market a go of things - and for some things it works great. But we effectively operate under a free market health care system right now and its woefully unpopular. That’s the reason why health care is a serious issue in 2008 in a way that it wasn’t in 2004, 2000, etc.
John McCain is so out of touch with normal Americans (his health care costs are covered by his military disability, his Senate health care plan and should anything fall through the cracks his wife’s generous inheritance can take up the slack) that he believes that what people want is more of the current mess.
Yet the American mood on large national issues like this is not a faith based free market system, but rather historically tends to favor a collective system where we all pay in and benefit.
So today the RNC pushed out a press release falseley claiming that the DNC had used Iraq footage from Fahrenheit 9/11. The funny thing is, that was the more sedate of the charges as the first round insinuated that Dems had received it from terrorists (from Michelle Malkin, naturally). RNC Chairman of the moment Mike Duncan:
As you are already aware, and as has been widely reported, the DNC’s ad is troubling for at least two reasons. First, its message is factually false; the DNC is deliberately misleading American voters. Second, it constitutes an illegal excessive in-kind contribution from the DNC to its presidential candidates. Now the Republican National Committee has learned that the ad features footage from Michael Moore’s 2004 conspiracy theory, “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
Of course, the footage isn’t from terrorists or (even worse in conservative minds) Michael Moore. The footage is from an AP report purchased from Getty Images.
The funny/sad thing is the RNC and the con bloggers are more upset over where the footage may or may have not have come from than they are about the people and the party who have put our soldiers in harm’s way in the first place.
Again, here is the ad they don’t want you to see, from the folks at the DNC.
This is the sort of thing you let dance on its own.
Tony Zirkle, who is seeking the Republican nomination in Indiana’s 2nd District, stood in front of a painting of Hitler, next to people wearing swastika armbands and with a swastika flag in the background for the speech to the American National Socialist Workers Party in Chicago on Sunday.
“I’ll speak before any group that invites me,” Zirkle said Monday. “I’ve spoken on an African-American radio station in Atlanta.”
Link includes Zirkle standing in front of a picture of Hitler, flanked on each side by the U.S. flag and Nazi flag. Really. In 2008.
A US campaign watchdog has accused presumptive Republican president nominee John McCain of violating election laws by accepting campaign contributions from two prominent Londoners.
At issue is a fundraising luncheon held in March at London’s Spencer House, during McCain’s swing through the United Kingdom. An invitation to the event lists Lord Rothschild and Nathaniel Rothschild as hosts, and indicates the event was made possible with their “kind permission”.
Judicial Watch, a Washington organisation instrumental in the March release of Hillary Clinton’s White House schedules, has asked US election monitors to investigate whether the Rothschilds improperly sponsored the fundraiser. US political campaigns are forbidden from accepting contributions from foreign nationals.
Tancredo is so aftaid of Hispanics he wants to put American soil on the other side of his wall. Idiot.
Republican Tom Tancredo supports the border wall. The U.S. representative attended the hearing in Brownsville yesterday.
During the hearing, he told the Brownsville landowners, “I suggest that you build this fence around the northern part of your city…” implying that all of Brownsville should be on the Mexican side of the wall.
Alan Keyes was unable to get the Constitution Party nomination for president. This can only mean one thing.
The Keyes Party.
WHERE DO I SEND MY DONATION?
Clearly this is good for out of touch John McCain.
Americans’ confidence in the economy continued to plunge this month as their homes lost value at the fastest rate in two decades, according to reports released on Tuesday.
The data suggested that the housing slump was far from a recovery and the job market might continue to weaken, ratcheting up pressure on the Federal Reserve, which began a two-day meeting on Tuesday, to take steps to stave off a prolonged slowdown.
The reports were consistent with a recession, economists said, though some optimists have insisted the economy is growing, albeit at a snail’s pace. President Bush remained in the latter camp at a news conference on Tuesday, where he said the economy was facing “a tough time.”
“Hack” is almost a charitable term.
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Just when you thought Halle Berry couldn’t be any better
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Vinny Cerrato, you are a moron
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HOLY CUTE. (via Jerry in comments)
[Nelson]Ha! Ha! We’re laughing at the NHL![/Nelson]
Doctor Martha Jones, I presume? I wanted to visit the UK as it is, now I really feel the need to make it across the pond. Doctor Who is just so much better when she’s on than when she isn’t.
Freema Agyeman in “The Sontaran Stratagem” which is about as British sci-fi a title as you can get:
