Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Petty moves from a petty man.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Bark louder, little dog.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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Terrorism Futures

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Colby Cosh (via Instapundit), describing the reaction of certain Senators and newspaper writers when faced with the (gasp!) horride and gruesome idea of DARPA’s futures market:

Here’s Florida Today checking in from the Space Coast: “The Pentagon’s plan to open a Web site for people to bet on terrorist assassinations and other geopolitical disasters was tasteless, ludicrous and embarrassing to the United States.” If someone wants to blow up the Vehicle Assembly Building, it appears Florida Today would rather not know! Talk about a commitment to good taste.

Newsday’s Ellis Henican writes “This was an idea so patently gruesome and spectacularly stupid, when I first heard it I thought it had to be a hoax.” I felt the same way when I heard there were newspaper columnists who heard new ideas and were incapable of forming any impression of them beyond their instinctual reaction. Hey, if I want to see a dumb animal recoil from a stimulus, I won’t buy a newspaper–I’ll throw firecrackers at my cat!

Exactly. Instapundit has a bunch of great links on the issue, and Yglesias joins me in flinging feces at the posturing Senators who killed this before they had any idea what it was.

The most annoying thing for me is not the way the Democrats behaved- and here are two more over the top reactions:

Criticism mounted yesterday. On the Senate floor, Democratic Leader Thomas Daschle of South Dakota denounced the program as “an incentive actually to commit acts of terrorism. This is just wrong.”

At an Armed Services Committee hearing, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton called it “a futures market in death.”

What pisses me off is how the Republicans caved on this. That is just unacceptable. I expect the Democrats to be against EVERYTHING this administration does- that is all they have done for three years. I don’t expect the sort of weak in the knee response to innovation that I got from the elephants yesterday. That was disgusting.

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Gay High Schools

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I saw this on the news tonight, and since I am unfamiliar with my parent’s cable channels, I thought I might have been watching Comedy Central by mistake. Unfortunately, it is true:

New York City is creating the nation’s first public high school for gays, bisexuals and transgender students.

The Harvey Milk High School will enroll about 100 students and open in the fall.

”I think everybody feels that it’s a good idea because some of the kids who are gays and lesbians have been constantly harassed and beaten in other schools,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday. ”It lets them get an education without having to worry.”

This is the worst idea I have heard in a long time. You know, it is very difficult to push for things like gay marriage, and to argue that the gay rights movement doesn’t want special rights, just the same protection of their rights that heterosexuals enjoy, and then you see crap like this being peddled. How about all heterosexual schools? Or all caucasian schools? Or schools just for people with lisps?

All this does is vindicate loser assholes like Pat Robertson and their ilk- they have claimed for years that the homosexual lobby wants special rights- and every time they have, leftists and people such as myself have beaten them down and called them homophobic and bigoted.

Please don’t tell me they were right.

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Race Games

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I see Jesse Jackson has been rather successful at attacking my favorite past-time- and now the NFL is fining people for their hiring choices:

The NFL served notice Friday that it is taking its commitment to diversity seriously, fining Detroit Lions president Matt Millen $200,000 for not interviewing any minority candidates before hiring coach Steve Mariucci.

Commissioner Paul Tagliabue sent a letter to Millen informing him of the fine, the first under the league’s diversity program.

After coach Marty Mornhinweg was fired by the Lions in January, Mariucci was the only person interviewed for the job. The team said five minority candidates turned down interviews because it appeared inevitable Mariucci would be hired.

Team spokesman Bill Keenist said the Lions “respectfully disagree” with the ruling but support initiatives to promote diversity on coaching staffs and in front offices.

I doubt Jesse Jackson will be working to increase the number of slow white people in the Defensive backfield. At any rate, this bullshit (sorry for the language, but that is what this is, pure bullshit) is now proving to be a serious distraction as my BELOVED STEELERS head to training camp:

The Lions’ position, as stated by vice chairman William Clay Ford Jr. and Millen in a March 4 session with Tagliabue and Rooney’s diversity committee, was that the Lions have a long-standing record of minority hiring and had made an honest effort to comply with the initiative.

“If you look at the Lions’ organization vis-a-vis the Pittsburgh Steelers — and it was Dan Rooney’s committee that made the recommendation to Paul — and look at the personnel in the league office. … I mean, talk about pointing fingers,” Ford said.

“I think we’ve got an excellent record. We’ve got a record not because we’re trying to satisfy anything [but] because we pick good people. And the Steelers and the league office have a terrible record. They’re great ones to be picking us out.”

Under Millen, the Lions have 12 black employees in positions of authority, including senior vice president Martin Mayhew, offensive coordinator Sherman Lewis, director of pro personnel Sheldon White and head athletic trainer Al Bellamy.

The exact number of black executives in the NFL administration could not be immediately determined, according to Greg Aiello, league vice president of public relations, but at least six have the rank of director.

The Steelers have a total of nine black employees on their coaching, personnel or training staff staffs.

One of my former students is an intern for the Steelers (he is black), and I am going to training camp sometime this week. I am thoroughly excited and can not wait. At any rate, let me make one thing clear:

You race-baiters and race-pimps can do what you want to the DNC and the GOP- the DNC gets what they deserve for stoking these fires, the GOP gets what they deserve for not standing up to you clowns. Big business gets the shakedown because they probably don’t hire enough minorities, and if they do, they deserve to get screwed because they don’t have the nerve to hire a bunch of lawyers to beat down Jesse and his crew.

I can handle you messing with all of those groups. But when you start pissing around with the Steelers and the NFL, you are now pushing into sacred territory. There is a reason I call February through July the ‘dark months.’ I do not need you clowns ruining football for me. Period. Take your little race games somewhere else. Demon, be gone!

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Where Have All the Democrats Gone?

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The Texas Democrats are on the run again:

)–Senate Republicans urged their Democratic colleagues Tuesday to abandon their out-of-state walkout and work with them on a congressional redistricting plan.

“No Texas problem has ever been solved in New Mexico,” said Republican Sen. Todd Staples.

In a move reminiscent of a walkout by House Democrats 2 1/2 months ago, 11 of the state Senate’s 12 Democrats had fled Texas for Albuquerque, N.M., on Monday. The move they broke a Senate quorum and blocked consideration of the bitterly contested redistricting issue.

The Senate met briefly Tuesday morning but broke after a few minutes. Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said they would reconvene Wednesday morning. On the other side of the Capitol, the House met but also lacked a quorum, and the majority of absent members were Democrats.

Let them keep this up for as long as they want- they are signing their own political death warrants. The re-districting, which they may perceive as unfair, is going to happen- and Texas, no matter how much the Dems may hate it, is now a GOP stronghold. IN the next election, I bet a large number of these Dems are defeated- for being recalcitrant morons.

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The Misery Continues

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And the California ‘compromise’ budget fails:

A compromise budget intended to cover the state government’s record deficit and break a bitter political stalemate fell nine votes short early Tuesday on the Assembly floor.

The failure to pass the nearly $100 billion budget is at least a temporary setback for party leaders in both houses who had backed the budget plan that used a combination of spending cuts, borrowing and a variety of higher fees.

Is the Democrat stategery going to work?

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