Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

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

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

The National Guard is not Batman.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

You are here: Home / Archives for 2008

Archives for 2008

New Gallup

by | 56 Comments

This post is in: ,

Keep in mind that you should probably put as much stock in this daily tracking poll as you did every one in which Obama was leading (in my case, that is very little), but it appears that Hillary is now ahead of Obama by one percentage point in the latest Gallup. Who knows how much of this is bounce for Hillary from Pa, and how much of this is Obama being dragged down by his former pastor.

As far as super delegates go, it appears that Obama has picked up two in the past few days and Hillary has picked up one. In the Obama category go Richard Machacek from Iowa and Kentucky Rep. Ben Chandler, while Hillary picked up NC Gov. Mike Easley.

As someone new to the Democratic party, I have to admit to being shocked at how efficient we are at inflicting maximum damage on ourselves. I still don’t think there is any way for Hillary to win without ripping the party in two for at least a decade, but I am amazed that the remaining undecided super delegates seem content to sit by and waffle and do nothing as Hillary and Obama destroy each other. Profiles in courage, I tell you.

At any rate, the way this is going, by the time Obama finally has the number of super delegates he needs, Hillary and Rev. Wright can have him trailing McCain and Hillary in the polls by double digits. Awesome.

As a side note, I still do not know whether I am supposed to hyphenate the term super delegate, and I switch back and forth between hyphenated and unhyphenated, sometimes in the same post.

*** Update ***

Almost an identical post at the Great Orange Satan, which has me kind of weirded out. Apparently now I even think like the Great Satan himself.

New GallupPost + Comments (56)

What American Conservative Said

by | 31 Comments

This post is in: ,

The overall press silence on contracting abuses in Iraq, despite a major and disturbing Congressional hearing yesterday, really is disgraceful.

As a side note, it’s a weird experience for me to read the American Conservative RSS feed more or less daily and find little if anything to disagree about (one has to assume that will change when we start debating single payer healthcare). They’re not even paleocon in the grumpy racist Weekly Standard National Review under William F. Buckley kind of way. Readers looking for another John Cole could do worse. However, be warned, you’ll probably miss out on highbrow content like this.

What <i>American Conservative</i> SaidPost + Comments (31)

Great Moments in Home Ownership

by | 74 Comments

This post is in: 

Goota love the war on your neighbor:

Brooklyn Park police were looking for a meth lab, but they found a fish tank and the chemicals needed to maintain it.

And a few hours later, when the city sent a contractor to fix the door the police had smashed open Monday afternoon, it was obvious the city was trying to fix a mistake.

It happened while Kathy Adams was sleeping.

“And the next thing I know, a police officer is trying to get me out bed,” she said.

Adams, a 54-year-old former nurse who said she suffers from a bad back caused by a patient who attacked her a few years ago, was handcuffed. So was her 49-year-old husband.

“They brought us here and said once we clear that area, you can sit down and you will not speak to each other,” she said.

Police were executing a search warrant signed by Hennepin County Judge Ivy Bernhardson, who believed there was probable cause the Adams’s home was a meth lab.

I think my favorite thing about home invasions like this is how the police maintain that they did nothing wrong. This quote, from the Capt. Roehl regarding the information that was used to invade the home, is just priceless:

“Everything this person told us turned out to be true, with the exception of what the purpose of the lab was,” Roehl said.

Idiot.

Great Moments in Home OwnershipPost + Comments (74)

BSG Blogging

by | 87 Comments

This post is in: ,

Things are starting to pick up after episode 3 in season 2.0 (Fragged), and I have developed a healthy dislike for Col. Tigh. There are a number of things that bother me so far about the series, most of which is that all the characters seem so, well, stereotypical. The butch female fighter who has a hidden soft side but a tough exterior, the flawed military man with a troubled past and a liking for the bottle, the self-confident and often over-confident son, the scheming wife, and so on. However, I do happen to really like the nutty professor. Gaius Baltar is actually turning out to be my favorite character in the whole show.

Many questions do arise, however, about the overall status of the show. Like, for example, where does Col. Tigh find his endless supply of booze? I remember running out of booze years ago as an undergrad after the bars had closed in WV, and we couldn’t find a drop to drink anywhere and had to run on fumes and Parliament of Funk. Col. Tigh, however, is trapped on a ship with no means of production in outer space, chased by an alien space fleet after what is essentially the apocalypse, and yet he has an never-ending flask of green scotch?

Seriously? What is up with that?

*** Update ***

I should probably add that while Tricia Helfer seems to have attracted all the geek lust for BSG, Grace Park is much, much better looking.

BSG BloggingPost + Comments (87)

Good Question

by | 56 Comments

This post is in: ,

Kevin Drum is incredulous that no one in the media is discussing the fact that John McCain has sheltered all of his assets behind his wife’s name:

Can we stop pretending to be children about this? There’s only one reason for a politician to make sure that all his assets are in his wife’s name: it’s to make sure that no one knows anything about his assets. It’s not as if McCain is the first pol to try this, after all.

Is the press really going to let him get away with this?

Kinda makes you wonder about that liberal media, doesn’t it? I mean, if the media really was all that liberal and in the tank with the Democrats, you would think by now impeachment proceedings would be under way for Bush. At the very least, a liberal media would not have spent the last 4 months painting Hillary Clinton as a castrating bitch and Barack Obama as a scary negro who hangs out with terrorists.

But then again, maybe the media is liberal and scheming, and they are just holding until things are boring in September and October to drop it on the McCain campaign then. If I were a paranoid conservative type, that would be my concern.

More than likely, the media will just ignore it, though- McCain has gotten a free ride with the press for so long it is just second nature. Cripes, go check out the Daily Howler (or his incomparable archives!) on any given day if you don’t believe me. Chances are, they won’t ask because they might miss out on some of that good BBQ action.

Good QuestionPost + Comments (56)

Random Occurences

by | 67 Comments

This post is in: ,

So I bought this album by a band named Wolfmother on a lark, and right now I am cranking Where Eagles Have Been, and I feel like I am 13 years old again listening to Yes-Relayer on the cassette player in my bedroom while reading Lord Foul’s Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson.

I guess consider this an open thread, but I am just shocked this is a band from the late 2000’s. Holy loads of flashbacks, batman.

Random OccurencesPost + Comments (67)

ActBlue Update

by | 14 Comments

This post is in: 

The good people at Act Blue sent me an email letting me know they had added this widget type function, so I thought I would post it. It allows you to set your goal, and then easily keep track of it. I decided to up the ante a little and shoot for 15k rather than just 10k.

Goal Thermometer

At any rate, just click on the graphic and it should take you to the page to donate to Obama.

Kinda cool.

ActBlue UpdatePost + Comments (14)