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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.
We still have time to mess this up!
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
T R E 4 5 O N
Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.
Innocent people don’t delay justice.
We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.
If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.
You cannot shame the shameless.
We are aware of all internet traditions.
No one could have predicted…
Good lord, these people are nuts.
This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.
Black Jesus loves a paper trail.
A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.
“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”
I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.
I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.
We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.
A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.
Not all heroes wear capes.
“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”
“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!
demimondian
Oooh…fresh thread!
Now I just need a kitten to…err…play with it. Yeah, that’s right, kittens like to play with thread.
Jimmm
IRST-FAY!
Jimmm
(nb: Demimondian’s post was already up and on display when I got here.)
null pointer exception
One question for gadgetheads here: Which type of TV is better? Plasma screen, or LCD screen?
calipygian
Perhaps we should have let the Russians win the Cold War. Then we wouldn’t have had this.
Shoot me now. Please, make it stop.
SGEW
Hey, y’all. Thought I’d just say sorry for enthusiastically posting so many comments recently. Didn’t mean to spam up th’ threads (esp. as I’m “new” here), but there’s been a spree of hot-button topics for me, and I’ve recently found myself in front of a computer with way, way, way too much time on my hands.
Digital Amish
Null, I researched this question a lot. I asked the experts in all the major tv stores, interviewed the experts, read all the reviews. The clear cut consensus seems to be “it depends”.
KC
Digital Amish,
After reading up on the subject and talking to people, that’s what I came to too. I think what’s most important, is the quality of the television. There’s a lot of nice looking stuff on the market now, but that also happens to be crap.
TheFountainHead
Watching Meet the Press today makes one wonder if there’s some sort of natural law against good looking people going into professional politics.
calipygian
I love Mike Murphy and his half-combover and half-mullet. Pick one of the other! We’re a nation at war!
Plus James Carville and his very effective Gollum impersonation.
Of course, that makes Mary Matalin “Precious”. [shudder]
The thought of the two of them tumbling off a cliff into the firey pit of Mount Doom warms the cockles of my heart.
Of course, here in Alexandria, Virginia, the closest we have to that is having one too many Bombay Sapphire martinis at The Chart House and accidently falling into the Potomac.
John Cole
I still have a rear-projection tv.
TheFountainHead
And watching Carville try and avoid agreeing that Clinton’s campaign is a disaster is simply stunning.
calipygian
James Carville and Gollum:
Separated at Birth?
Apologies to the late, great Spy Magazine.
John D.
One consideration: Do you have wireless networking or cordless phones nearby? Plasma TVs are the mother of all RFI emitters.
tBone
As long as you’re willing to spend the money for a decent set, you can’t really go wrong either way. The pros and cons between plasmas and LCDs have narrowed considerably as the technology has improved.
Dug Jay
I see that today’s New York Times raises a number of serious questions concerning Obama’s deep involvement with Chicago sleazeball mobster, Tony Rezko.
Dennis - SGMM
To expand a bit on Digital Amish’ essentially correct post. Do not go by the specs, go by what looks best to your eye. A lot of how the plasma and particularly the LCD sets work and look depends on the firmware that drives the thing. A Super Kill-o-Zap 1080p with mediocre firmware will not present as a good a viewing experience as a 720p set with excellent firmware. Also, be aware of your viewing distance at home and check out the sets in the store from that same distance when shopping.
SGEW
Okay, this is pretty good:
Go to google and type “find chuck norris” (and hit the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button).
Best thing I’ve seen in months. h/t (believe it or not) to WND.
TheFountainHead
Snark?
I’m reading it again, but I didn’t see the “serious questions” the first time.
SGEW
Nor “mobster” or “deep involvement.” I’ll give him “Chicago” and “sleazeball.”
Dennis - SGMM
SGEW: find chuck norris is hilarious! Thanks for the laugh.
demimondian
I see deep involvement of the Whitewater noise machine, though.
The New York Times is trying to create an air of “they all do it”, by peddling salacious, but weakly sourced, stories raising questions about ethics. I remember this happening in 1992, too, about a deal called Whitewater. I guess that the Grey Lady made too much money over that to notice the stain on her reputation it left — first a weak story claiming that McCain had an affair with a lobbyist (oh, and might have done favors for her employer), and now an even weaker story about a set of transactions involving the Obamas paying a reasonable price for two parcels of land in a very pricey neighborhood of Chicago.
In both cases, there are clear errors of judgment in which a public figure let a friendship blind him to the appearance of favor. In neither case, though, is there any credible evidence of excessive influence beyond that initial smell. The only story which has come out of this is McCain’s lying about the nature of the letters he wrote to the FCC, and that’s best summarized with the following screamer diary title “Breaking! politician writes letter in support of position he has taken publicly!”
Uh…yeah. Wake me up when the Hagee story actually breaks — and even it’s not about McCain, but about the medias deference towards him.
RoonieRoo
Me sitting on chair staring at laptop with my jaw hanging open with ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ issuing forth from the speakers.
GrumpyCodeMonkey comes over to look over my shoulder and says “What the hell is that!!!”
Me: “I made a mistake and clicked on a link from Balloon Juice.”
GrumpyCodeMonkey: “Ah.” nods with understanding.
Geeze calipygian! Good morning to you too.
PaulB
“Do not go by the specs, go by what looks best to your eye”
One thing to keep in mind: you really cannot trust the preset settings in the store. Ask the salesman to let you put in a DVD and tweak the settings to match. Then trust your eye.
The Grand Panjandrum
This is crushing news. I thought he WAS Gollum.
Dug Jay quoting the NYT? Man, I love this country!
demimondian
Um…yeah. “The Red Army Choir does Lennyrd Skinnyrd” — you should hear (and see) their rendition of “Free Bird”.
Krista
That is utterly fantastic.
And RoonieRoo, I’m very glad that I had already finished my coffee prior to clicking on that link. The amount of wrong in that video cannot be counted.
Dennis - SGMM
Aw shit: I just read that Mike Smith, lead singer of the Dave Clark Five, passed away Thursday. You know you’re getting old when guys from the bands you used to listen to start dying.
Brachiator
The March 2008 issue of Consumer Reports features a review of LCD, plasma, and rear projection sets. What’s best? As another poster noted, “it depends.”
The CR review also includes a sidebar about the upcoming switch to digital-only broadcasting, scheduled for February 17, 2009. A lot of people with older TVs, older VCRs and DVRs, portable TVs (especially small TVs used while boating and camping), and even folks with radios with TV tuners, will find themselves in the dark, at least if they don’t have a converter box.
On the plus side, the CR sidebar clearly notes that you may be able to get good digital reception with an antenna. There are AV stores in my area with sales people who insist that you must have either cable or satellite in order to go digital.
Rear projection sets appear to be a dying breed. Sony will not make any new sets after current inventories are gone, Toshiba and Hitachi are going to stop making them, and apparently Phillips has already stopped production of these types of sets.
Also, as an aside, the March Consumer Reports also has a review of vacuums. Kenmore takes the top 2 spots among uprights (and is also among the top canisters), but Dyson, Hoover and Riccar are also well reprsented.
demimondian
Heh. The original (and all time classic) example of that kind of hack is “french military victories” and click “I’m feeling lucky”
The Other Steve
It depends. Benefits of LCD is lighter weight, lower power consumption, less problem with burn-in. Plasma tends to have more vivid colors, blacker blacks, and a brighter display. Although LCD has whiter whites, which counterbalances that.
The market seems to be shifting towards LCD. I just bought a Sharp Aquos 64d64u for xmas and love it. Before buying, do some research, and watch prices for a while. The best LCD’s come from Sony, Sharp and Samsung. The best plasma come from Pioneer and Panasonic.
p.a.
TV technology:
In general, plasma are heavier and more power-hungry than the same size LCD, plasmas still tend to have better black tones. LCD’s had angle-of-view issues; no more. I think DLP has the best picture, and I’ve heard flat panel DLP sets are coming, but like any new tech. will cost $$$. TV size is a function of viewing distance. If you can use a smaller set you can save some $$$ and go with 720p; there is no noticeable difference below about 40 inches.
It’s like stereo speakers; go with what appeals to you. One last thing to be aware of: the type and number of inputs the tv provides; make shure they are adequate for your equipment and transport technology.
Consumer Reports is a good reference point; they seem to have new articles on HDTV every other month.
RSA
I recently got a Sony LCD (KDL series) to mount on our wall, with a cantilever arm mount so that it can be pulled out and pointed in either direction in our long living room. A plasma TV would have been half again heavier. I can’t tell the difference in display quality between LCD and plasma for the kind of stuff I watch (though I’m probably not a great judge).
mark
Oh, boy, another vacuum thread!
demimondian
I do a lot of work with monitors, and would suggest that for very high resolution stuff, there’s really little if any difference between the technologies. Due to LCD’s lighter weight and lower power consumption — not to mention intrinsic lower cost of production — I expect the technology to continue to improve for some time to come. Plasma appears to be losing the struggle in the broader marketplace.
What that does for a TV? Hell if I know — I don’t own one.
Dennis - SGMM
But, but, but, plasma has years of experience. Plasma will be ready on Day One!
TheFountainHead
There’s a real stench over at Hillaryis44.com this morning. Here some of the larger steaming piles…
On Richardson:
On Rezko, their Great Hope:
On Meet the Press, incoherently:
myiq2xu
Didn’t you get the memo on nutpicking?
If you get off on large steaming piles of shit, you must really love the pony.
tBone
As long as you have a cable or satellite set-top box, you’ll be fine. The analog-digital switchover will only affect people with older TVs who rely solely on OTA broadcasts.
4jkb4ia
Whew!
4jkb4ia
After the crushing victory tomorrow, Pitt should be in.
4jkb4ia
In other news, SLU loses to St. Bonaventure, 70-50. With Brad Soderberg you always knew which team would show up.
srv
Pioneer (or whatever their parent company is, Matsushita I think) announced in the last couple of weeks that they were dropping Plasma. Larger LCDs are now quality and price competitive with the larger plasmas.
Also, consider a DLP projector. Am more envious of my projector friends than LCD/plasma adopters.
Or you can just wait 2 years for OLED. That’s the bomb.
Punchy
I think this is good news, but it’s severely tempered by the thought that the Navy will file the ruling in a trashcan and just go on killing whales.
Really, they’ve stopped following rulings/laws/guidelines years ago.
Ninerdave
12 year old Cathode Ray that I got as a second ftw!
Dennis - SGMM
Buck up, myiq2xu; Hillary is gonna; pull it out with blockbuster victories in
Texas and OhioWyoming and Guam.The Other Steve
And cable/satellite would never think about offering hi-def content to their subcsribers without charging them extra and locking them into a proprietary tuner.
tBone
Uh, OK. The point is, most people are already equipped for the switchover, even if they don’t know it.
The Other Steve
Ok, today I stop readng blogs and start programming.
Mary
Oh, the Leningrad Cowboys simply fucking rule! (They’re Finnish, not Russian, BTW). Keep clicking on the sidelinks in that original link from calipygian for more LC chewy basso-profundo goodness. (Delilah? I was put on the earth just to listen to that song, I swear to God.) Go for Stairway To Heaven, too,I’m begging you. Oh fuck, just search for them on YouTube for Perfect Day, Happy Together, Pretty Fly for a White Guy and more.
And put Leningrad Cowboys Go America in your Netflix queue, OK?
Yes, I’m a raving fangirl and have been for years.
Digital Amish
I still haven’t gone with either a plasma or lcd tv. Before this election cycle is over (and the new one begins) I expect to empty a clip of 9mm rounds into maw of some gooberish talking head on some Sunday morning gabfest. I expect it will be very satisfying but very much less so if it is into a new $1600 tv.
How many tvs have been sold on the premise that the new broadcast standards are going to make the old Philco obselete? How many people rely on antennas anymore?
I missed the last vacuum thread. When I do the vacuuming (disregard my wifes laughter) I haul a circa 1975 Kenmore cannister in from the garage. Still has the kind of suction that is usually only ascribed to old girlfriends.
jcricket
No, that’s not quite what happened. They announced they were stopping production of 42″ Plasmas (for the reasons you cited). They’re still producing 50″, 58″ and larger Plasmas.
But more importantly, I’d buy a LCD at any size under 42″ for sure. I’d consider both at 42″, buy a Plasma at 50″ and unless I needed the wall-mounting/super-slim-factor, consider one of the new DLP projectors from Samsung with LEDs instead of regular bulbs at 60″ or up. Good price/performance.
I have one Plasma right now (Sony 42″, bought in 2002 for $5500) that I just love. In fact, it’s the only TV we have. Not as high resolution as the newest sets, but still light years ahead of the TVs I’ve owned in the past.
jcricket
Right – For the less-than-15% of people who get their TV via rabbit ears only, they might have to do something. The rest of us can keep on truckin’ with what we have.
I also read that 1/3 of the people that currently get TV via an antenna-only (non HD) plan to just stop watching TV after the switchover rather than bother with the convertor, a new TV, upgrading to cable/satellite, etc. It’s not a huge portion of the viewing audience, but I thought it was an interesting stat.
Now that I have an HD-capable set, I find myself really wishing every channel I watched was in HD. All the major network shows are, but I haven’t upgraded to the latest satellite/receiver from DirecTV to get more of the cable channels. It’s hard to watch “SD” for me (oh so spoiled!)
Mary
(Seriously, Flo and Eddie really needed to round up the Red Army for the original version of this. There is nothing like being ORDERED to be happy in the middle of a miserable, cold, soul destroying winter — especially if TZ shows up just about now to gloat about his summery weather. Fucker. I love him, but I hate him, you know?)
jcricket
See my stat above. Basically of the 10-15% that only use an antenna, I just read that 1/3 plan to stop watching TV, 1/3 plan to get the converter box and keep using their existing TV and 1/3 plan to go cable/satellite and/or upgrade their TV.
That’s the latest poll I read in one of the Home Theater magazines.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Frank Rich: McCain Channels His Inner Hillary
shorter Frank Rich: McCain looks at the Hillary juggernaut and thinks – now there’s some stupidity you can xerox!
Krista
This work for ya?
demimondian
Uh, yeah. Thanks, Krista.
Neal
War in South America.
This could be bad, huh? Oil prices would be driven higher, our stupid “war on drugs” and ties to Colombia will undoubtedly get us pulled further in, and wouldn’t Bushie love to have a chance to bitch slap the guy that called him Satan?
Fuck.
Mary
Oh, terrific, Krista. First the NAFTA kerfuffle, now lethal kitten farts delivered across the border. (I know, I know — you have a dog and don’t know how kittens can melt rooms with a single puff. But they can — oh, they can). Now those damn furriners are going to try to come up here and take our water.
(Well, we might be able to distract them with a few two-fours of Blue. Same damn thing, really.)
Krista
Anytime, hon. We aim to please.
demimondian
We aren’t there, yet. I think that this probably does lend credence to the claim that Chavez has been harboring FARC rebels for some time, and doesn’t want them dislodged from within his borders right now.
I’m sure that someone will now tell me that I don’t understand the pure and holy mindset of Hugo Chavez, and how he’s really helping the people of Colombia by supporting mass murder there. Or something like that.
Svensker
How come I never heard of Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir? The sight of all those guys in uniform singing “Swee Tome Alabahmah” in perfect unison, with huge grins on their faces… Thank you, thank you indeed. Priceless.
Svensker
Oh, great. $300/barrel oil by Wednesday. Not to mention Bush getting his rocks off with more war. Sounds like the winning combo of a “humble foreign policy” and fiscal conservatism all rolled up in one.
demimondian
It’ll give the Republicans something to blame the recession on. “No one could have foreseen that political or meteorological instability could have further raised the price of oil.”
Dennis - SGMM
Right. We’ll mobilize the College Republicans. I’m sure that they’ve been saving up their patriotism for just such an outing.
caustics
Don’t forget foreign-sourced 720p torrents, thus sticking it to “The Man” while still paying $100 a month for SD/HSI. Truly a model worth studying.
Who wants to see things like Mary Matalin’s face in HD anyway? Certainly not me.
RSA
Definitely! Keep an eye out for the Jim Jarmusch cameo.
Dennis - SGMM
Lemme see, when the set is on it’s almost always Keith Olbermann, Turner Classic Movies or The History Channel. It’s tough to choose between a 40″ set and 60″ one. I just know that I’m missing so much.
Brachiator
The 15% figure might be low. A recent USA Today story noted:
The full story can be found here: TV’s digital switchover has a downside
I wonder about this stat as well since the USA Today story goes on to note:
I don’t see how there can be good estimates about how people intend to react to the digital switchover if the majority of people don’t know about the transition.
Even people who know about the change have interesting gaps in their awareness of the significance of the change. For example, a group of female workers in my office take a portable TV to wherever they lunch, and watch the soaps. They all have cable at home, but this portable set will become a dead hunk of plastic after the changeover.
But even though it’s true enough that most people may find that they don’t have to do anything to get digital reception, there is something about the end of easily obtainable free broadcast TV that bugs me.
On a personal note, although my computer and other peripherals are more-or-less current state-of-the-art, I look around and note that I have a DVD/VCR combo player that does not have an ATSC tuner (it was purchased before March 2007, when devices were required to have digital tuners), and a couple of older TV sets that still have a great picture. At some point, I am going to have to replace them just to maintain compatibility with current technology.
Dennis - SGMM
This HDTV business may have been a ducky idea back in, 2000 or so. Now it seems like a mandated disaster. The networks say that they’re losing viewers, many of us are being very careful about our spending. Soon (broadcast anyway) television will become both less accessible and/or more expensive. Brilliant!
This reminds me of the movies’ attempt to capture the audience lost to television. There was 3D, Super Technirama 70, Ultra Panavision, Dimension 150 and a bunch of others. The movies didn’t get better, they just got bigger. A crap sitcom, punctuated with incessant commercials, or yet another reality show, will be just a lame on HDTV as they are on a 12″ black-and-white set.
Zeta
Dana Perino’s pretty foxy.
TenguPhule
Shorter Dug Jay: I need to shut the fuck up as I have no problem with New York City Mobsters running Homefucking Land Security.
TenguPhule
Bush’s theory of national preemptive defense begins to spray its bitter fruit.
caustics
Yup. Which reminds me: next to last Wire episode ever tonight.
Zuzu
Hey, I was just going to post the same thing.
Loved the movie, and the band looks like a lot of fun.
I think the Red Army Choir thing was for a movie and a couple of awards shows:
Total Balalaika Show (1994), which is a film of a concert performed by the band and the full 160-member Red Army Choir in Helsinki, Finland in June 1993. . . .
In 1994, the band appeared together with 70 members of the Red Army Choir at the 11th annual MTV Music Awards, at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, where they sang the Lynyrd Skynyrd classic Sweet Home Alabama. The show was seen by an estimated 250 million people worldwide. That same year, the band and ensemble again joined forces for the “NOKIA Balalaika Show”, a concert held in Berlin.
Wiki
Brachiator
Good points. The writers’ strike also nudged some people out of their viewing habits. In addition, with a slowing economy, and the continually unfolding impact of the housing market mess, some people might not be easily inclined to pony up for a new TV AND monthly cable.
And don’t forget about Cinerama. But imagine if moviegoers had to buy special glasses, or travel out of town to see Ultra Panavision movies, and the government had mandated that conventional movies could no longer be made.
By the way it is also interesting that some studios, such as NBC Universal, have decided to keep their shows off iTunes. You would think that, with the looming digital switchover, media companies would be looking for MORE outlets for their product, not fewer.
Foobar
Not a Digby fan? whats with the freecookingrecipes.com link?
John S.
I believe others have mentioned that you just have to trust your eye, and that is absolutely true.
After many hours of staring at a wide variety of sets, my wife and I agreed on an LCD made by LG. It is the first time I have ever purchased anything made by them, and so far (3 months later) I’m not disappointed. I have a 26″ model in the bedroom and a 42″ in the den, and they both have a fantastic picture. I compared them side-by-side with similar but more expensive Sharp Aquos and Mitsubishi models, and the LG just won me over.
I defintiely recommend taking a look.
demimondian
LG’s a good manufacturer — they make a lot of top flight gadgets. They’re best viewed as the Korean answer to Sony, running that thin era between having a truly first world economy and technology base and having an expensive labor force.
Tom
The best one of these was Daryl Strawberry and Dino from the Flintstones.
tBone
You’d also think that CEOs of enormous entertainment conglomerates could refrain from acting like bitchy little 7th graders, but as the NBC-iTunes blowup showed, they have trouble with that.
John S.
You have anything else they make that you would recommend?
demimondian
I’m a fan of their cell phones.
myiq2xu
Piled higher and deeper:
Emil Jones Jr. is the Illinois Senate Majority Leader. In return for Jones’ support, Obama delivered millions dollars in earmarks to Jones’ district.
Real ponies don’t oink.
TenguPhule
Just remember that at the point Obama becomes the nominee, you will have to plant a big wet one on the Unity Pony.
As you would expect the others to kiss the Clagina should Hillary by some quirk of fate become the nominee.
dnA
Clinton: Obama is not a Muslim “as far as I know”.
She makes me so angry I feel like praying.
myiq2xu
Fixt
myiq2xu
She said he wasn’t. About three different times. WTF do you pony lovers want?
myiq2xu
Jeebus!
demimondian
Jesus Christ Almighty.
Do you have any notion of the term “humility”? She said “No. There’s no evidence. No.” Then, pressed on the question, she acknowledged that there’s no basis for the smear that he’s a Muslim (the smear being that *he is lying about it*) as far as she knows.
That’s called humility. She’s being pressed by a reporter who might have a gotcha, and this might be the point at which he springs it on her. She can’t know, and does what you would want a President or Senator to do, admits that.
If that’s the best you can do, please, go get yourself sterilized before you reproduce. In the long run, humankind will thank you.
Dennis - SGMM
Nice try. Did Obama put a gun to the heads of the other legislators or did he just get the bills passed?
jcricket
Remember, it’s the Clinton rules. She has to double-sooper-secret-pinky-swear that he’s not a Muslim. In fact, she should be out there actively campaigning on the “Obama Muslim Smear is Ridiculous Tour (2008)” before she can be believed.
She’s the real Manchurian candidate, according to the MUP lovers. Zoophilia, I tell you.
jcricket
Just FYI, at the point he becomes the nominee I will gladly marry the MUP, forsaking all other candidates. No problem, no questions asked. Sign me up for Obama if he’s the nominee. I would never vote for a Republican presidential candidate (unless the world turns upside down), and never think of “staying home”, regardless of whether my favorite candidate was the eventual nominee or not.
I say this as someone who really, honestly believes that a Hillary/Obama ticket would be awesome. I’d be fine the other way around too, but I don’t think she brings as much to him on the bottom of the ticket as the other way around.
demimondian
Remember, jcricket, that I’m an Obama delegate to my LD, so my vote is already pledged. This is just me being pissed at what I see as infuriating behavior of the worst of the Obamaniacs.
I like the way Cole put it (paraphrasing): “It’s great rhetoric, and it drew my support — unlike what many of his supporters post online.”
zzyzx
Here’s what I did tonight – I wrote way too much about a weird Jimmy Olsen 8 page comic from 1957. Jimmy faces his worst enemy – men who have facial hair!
jcricket
I think it’s fair enough to say you’re gonna vote or be a delegate for Obama. Same as me already casting my vote for Hillary. The fact remains that supporters on both sides have done some pretty silly stuff, but I find it’s really only Obama supporters absolutely “appalled” at what are pretty standard political campaign tactics. That’s the part which comes across to me as “holier than though” and is really fricking annoying.
But as I said, even if his supporters were all like that it wouldn’t keep me from voting for him.
John S.
Yes, those are the Clinton rules. But doesn’t that mean she has to reject and denounce the accusation?
:)
yahaim
Obama is the Anti-Christ. This is the evidence:
1.- He will come as a man of Peace (Obama promises peace in Iraq, defeat for the US)
2.- He will come mounted on a white Female horse(Obama mother is white who had 6 African husbands)
3.- He will come to deceive( Obama says he’s a Christian but in fact he was born a Muslim, practices the Islamic religion, prays Friday’s facing Mecca)
4.- He will make himself the most powerful man on earth, if elected
5.- He will try to destroy the Jewish People and Israel( Obama has said he loves the Arabs specially the Palestinians, hates Israel and Jews. Admires Hitler, Osama etc)
6.- He will present himself as good and righteous but in fact he’s Satan himself. Violence is in his heart
7.- Obama will help Al Qaida in its evil projects.
8.- Barack Hussein Obama is the “King of the South” predicted in the Bible.(Daniel .11, Kenya is south of Jerusalem)
9.- Obama comes to implant muslim Sharia Law upon America.
Obama is the Anti-Christ, beware of him.
Watch him and don’t let you be deceived by Him.
Supporters of Obama: 1.5 billion Muslims, Oprah, Louis Farrakanh, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and all American Muslims.
OBAMA’S GAME IS DECEPTION AND VIOLENCE
A VOTE FOR OBAMA IS A VOTE FOR OSAMA AND KILLER ISLAM!!
misc
myiq2xu
Conflating an Obama nomination with the mass rape of Clinton supporters somewhat trivializes rape.
myiq2xu
Neither. He took credit for the work of others.
You might call it “legislative plagiarism.”
sivapith
101st!
Asti
At first I thought you were telling a yarn, then I realized you were just trying to string me along.
TenguPhule
Unless you’re on a team. In which case you give thanks that the score was made at all.
TenguPhule
Can’t pull the wool over your eyes, eh?
ThymeZone
myiq doesn’t know anything about teams. He’s a lawyer.
BTW, that was a great point. Don’t you just love it when you can just blow some bullshit right out of the water with a simple statement of the truth?
TenguPhule
Indeed. It was the first time I’d ever heard someone complaining that Obama was getting things done for Democrats. Wasn’t that in his job description?
ThymeZone
The Hillarites are getting a little desperate. The fact they haven’t floated the Black Baby story by now really surprises me.
Neal
…and he has TWO of those black babies!
incontrolados
For any interested, except Jen, two of the pups were adopted this weekend. Two are left.
I still read this blog almost every day, but I don’t pay so much attention to the comments. I’ve only ever been called crazy on this blog and wing nut blogs. You guys/girls have learned some very wrong lessons from the last seven years. I still comment on my favorite wingnut’s blogs, but have never stooped to calling anyone mentally derranged.
Thanks for all of the hits from before. It makes me think that there are real people who read this blog and sift through the nonsense. Two pups to go. I think they’ll find good homes next weekend.
As far as politics go, the regulars here are too clever by half. I changed my vote, in part, because of the way Jen acted. She left a link at my blog and it seems that she’s fake. And she has faked out others who support her cause. If this is the way you guys roll, then take it away.
I have changed my mind since voting on Friday. There is another chance for me to represent. Jen is a fake, and I don’t care if that blows whoever’s cover. This election is more important than spoofs on a blog, Mary.
Pb
I’ll say one thing for Hillary–at least she’s not afraid to speak out for her beliefs even when they’re unpopular, instead of pandering to her audience. Too bad she was totally wrong on that one.
incontrolados
Here’s Jen’s link, left on my blog. It’s going pretty far to set up a fake identity, but here you go.
ThymeZone
Okay, I’m convinced.
And just to show good faith and reciprocate, here’s a recent photo of me.
This controversy is closed.
Cain
You look pretty good for 70.
cain
ThymeZone
Thanks, sweetheart.
incontrolados
Don’t care TZ. Never have.
Let the Jen explain.
Comments here have gone down the toilet. Zif is even tainted, though he never called me crazy.
ThymeZone
Ya lost me there, incontrol. Pretty sure I never called you crazy.
But as you can see from my photo, I am either a pretty nice looking 70-year-old woman, or a well groomed tranny.
Anyway, we must all soldier on.
incontrolados
Pretty sure I never called you crazy.
Never said you did.
So you are an old virus. Tell me another story. Like Rome Again.
TenguPhule
Hmmm, Asian markets in the toilet.
Monday is going to suck for Wall Street.
Too bad it won’t only suck for Wall Street.
Zuzu
I just saw Friday’s Bill Maher show.
Must say I’m really getting pretty sick of him passing on bad info and urban myths without comment.
Martin
And for those who think that Hillary’s hedging was ‘responsible’ or some shit like that. Here’s how to refute a smear:
That was McCain defending Kerry during the swiftboat shit. Hillary couldn’t muster up enough integrity to to step in front of a smear that’s been going on for almost a year against a member of her own party. And if it was a gotcha, it was a gotcha on *many* millions of people and probably the FBI as well, so she could hardly feel like a fool if that turn was taken.
Zuzu
He’s still denouncing the smear tactics:
If he really runs the clean campaign he says he will, good for him.
OriGuy
I found a link to this on Dave Barry’s blog.
Just the thing for the toddler who wants to grow up to work for the TSA.
calipygian
Snark, right?
Fruitbat
Not snark, unfortunately. A quick search turned up other choice posts by this comedian on some random “discussion” site about how Christians wrote the Koran (and are therefore superior to Muslims), and how a Muslim can never be a good American citizen.
Sickness spreads, I guess.
Xenos
Excuse me, Stewardess, I speak jive…
This is a profound mischaracterization of wingnut theology. One of the critical proofs of the veracity of the Bible is that all the Daniel prophecies came true long ago.
If you listen or read or live at all within the circuit of the modern evangelical/ fundmentalist/ dispensationalist circles you know the “Barack is the ‘King of the South’ to be an argument that undermines all those sermons and late-night radio lectures for the last 30 years. Then again, the sheeple probably don’t care.
Johnny Pez
No no no, Reagan was the Anti-Christ. R-O-N-A-L-D W-I-L-S-O-N R-E-A-G-A-N = 666. Get it?
The world actually ended in 1987. You just didn’t notice.
Louise
Sheesh. Hillary — Here is now you answer Steve’s question (note the first sentence. It’s easy — just five words.):
“Barack Obama is not a Muslim. Any talk about his being a Muslim is a smear campaign, based in the politics of fear. Barack and Muslims should be offended. I am offended.”
It’s not like she couldn’t have anticipated the question and, as she said, it’s not like she doesn’t know what it’s like to be on the receiving end. So why the roundabout answer? Has she simply been in politics too long to say “yes” or “no”?
Louise
Ok, it’s six words. But it’s still easy.
4tehlulz
I got an ad for Oreck on the BJ front page this morning.
Jen
I already left that link. It didn’t do any good. Notice how I’m in a knitting group, too?
ThymeZone