Al Franken HATES PUPPIES:
Sarcasm works.
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Al Franken HATES PUPPIES:
Sarcasm works.
One of the Best Political Commercials Of The YearPost + Comments (32)
by John Cole| 78 Comments
This post is in: Election 2008, Lies, Damned Lies, and Sarah Palin, Republican Stupidity
She then slammed Barack Obama calling him disqualified to be President of the United States, “Some of his comments that he has made about the war that I think may — in my world– disqualifies someone from consideration as the next commander in chief.” Palin said, “Some of his comments about Afghanistan and what we are doing there supposedly– just air raiding villages and killing civilians. That’s reckless. So I wanted to talk about things like that. So I guess I have to apologize about being a little annoyed, but that is also an indication of being outside that Washington elite and being outside the media elite also and just wanting to talk and just wanting to talk to Americans without the filter and let them know what we stand for.”
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, two weeks ago:
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates apologized Wednesday for recent U.S. airstrikes that have killed civilians in Afghanistan.
“I offer all Afghans my sincere condolences and personal regrets for the recent loss of innocent life as a result of coalition air strikes,” Gates said at a news conference outside the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
“While no military has ever done more to prevent civilian casualties, it is clear that we have to work even harder.”
Daniel Larison has been chronicling her nonsense on this on an almost daily basis, so I will just leave you with a quote from him about the Palin choice:
For my part, I have made no secret that I welcome McCain’s defeat, so you might say that I am so biased against the ticket that you should ignore what I say, but it seems clear to me that the ever-declining standards that conservatives have set for what makes a candidate acceptable to them and the declining quality of the political leadership they have received are very closely related.
It is not an unfair attack to state that on matters great and small alike, Sarah Palin has demonstrated that she has no idea what she is talking about. And on the few occasions that she decides she should speak freely to the press, it is clear that she is just passing on jingoistic claptrap and unadulterated nonsense. Which, then again, may explain her appeal to the Republican base.
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This had me laughing out loud:
McCain’s Economic Plan For Nation: ‘Everyone Marry A Beer Heiress’
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OJ was found guilty on thirteen counts:
O. J. Simpson was found guilty late Friday on all 12 counts stemming from a confrontation in a hotel room last year, including armed robbery and kidnapping.
The verdict, which comes 13 years to the day after Mr. Simpson was acquitted in the highly publicized murders of his ex-wife and her friend, concluded a four-week trial that many have seen as a proxy for those unsatisfied by that 1995 outcome.
Mr. Simpson now faces 15 years to life for the kidnapping charge as well as a minimum of at least an additional 10 years in prison on the other charges. His attorney, Yale Galanter, said he would appeal.
After the verdicts were read, the judge revoked the bail for Mr. Simpson, a Heisman Trophy winner and an inductee in the National Football Hall of Fame. As his sister, Carmelita, wept and fainted in the front row, he was led away in handcuffs. Mr. Simpson is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 5.
Two thoughts:
First, His children now have a dead mother and their father, her murderer, will now die in jail. Anyone who would subject his children to that is subhuman.
Second, I can only hope that this will give the Brown and Goldman families some sense of justice. The last time I saw Fred Goldman on television, he was a snarling, bitter, angry man, and it was clear that the murder of his son had consumed him. Maybe this will give him some peace of mind.
Consider this your one and only post on the matter.
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This post is in: Cat Blogging, Dog Blogging
Before our own entries, head on over to Scalzi’s place and check out Bacon Cat.
Ok- I got a lot more responses than I expected (we are at around 90 and counting), so I just picked two a few (math is HARD):
Ollie strikes a pose.
I just love the coloring on Pati.
This is Honey, who looks like she belongs at Cute Overload.
And finally, video. The sound here is rough.
I am busy saving all the other pictures.
This post is in: Election 2008, Clown Shoes
So much for the celebrity meme, as we learn that famous people loved Sarah Palin’s performance last night:
Apparently one of the crazy Kossacks took a screen shot of that at the WaPo this morning, where they had forgotten to insert an actual person’s name as the origin of the quote. Later on, they learned that the “famous person” was supposed to be Peggy Noonan, who offered us this steaming pile of nonsense today.
The Mighty Wurlitzer misses a note here and there, but the beat goes on.