I heard this on American Routes today and now I’m obsessed with it. What a great song.
Talk about whatever and throw a button in the plate for the Kenyan usurper if the spirit so moves you.
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I heard this on American Routes today and now I’m obsessed with it. What a great song.
Talk about whatever and throw a button in the plate for the Kenyan usurper if the spirit so moves you.
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Here, starring in yet another Gangnam Style parody, is a true American hero, Congressman John Lewis, who is calling all voters!
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Couldn’t help but smile.
In other news: had dinner with friends last night, one of whom lives on Elizabeth Warren’s block in Cambridge, MA. He told me that several long-time, old-line Republicans on the street are voting for her. Why? She is apparently a fabulous neighbor. I know that’s hardly of earth-shattering moment, but it’s still nice to hear.
With that…have some more thread.
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Doing what will almost certainly be the last mowing and trimming of the year. We’ve decided to hold off on listing our current house and starting construction on the new house. If Rmoney wins, there’s a good chance I’ll be out of of a job, being that I’m still Career-conditional without tenure as I have less than three years in the federal civil service. If Obama wins, I’m good to go. If Rmoney wins but the Dems keep the Senate, I’m good to go. But I’m holding what I’ve got for now at least until after the election. If Rmoney wins and the the Senate flips (very unlikely, I know) then all bets are off. Not only will my position be most likely liquidated when they destroy the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, cut disability payments and voucher out the healthcare, but whatever job I do find will have my taxes go up because we have to give tax cuts to billionaires and the only way to do that is to raise income taxes on the middle class, like me. The Zombie-eyed Granny Starver will have his blood, and his bought and paid for stooge will do what he’s told-which he’d do anyway.
But other than those heavy thoughts with which I find myself occupied, it’s a beautiful day here in Oklahoma City for doing that fall lawn care.
Oh, yeah–here’s that open thread I mentioned.
by $8 blue check mistermix| 28 Comments
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For the next two weeks, it’s going to be all about the wimmins, so here’s Paul Ryan Gosling’s theme song and an open thread, for the ladies.
by $8 blue check mistermix| 55 Comments
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Somebody at Forbes didn’t get the message that being a conservative magazine means you have to lie for Romney. Exhibit A: “If Romney Cuts Taxes For The Rich By 20%, He Will Have To Raise Taxes For The Middle Class By $1 Trillion”. (via Buffalopundit)
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MY chickens have nothing to fear from BBQ grills…
Today, I think we’ll finish up our kitchen renovations. Gotta install the sink and dishwasher, which should be fun! (Not!) What are y’all up to?
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Since I am neither a Christian, a Christianist, or a nice person, I will admit to taking vulgar pleasure in the highly public depantsing of Dinesh “Nothing Happened” D’Souza. Do not miss the full glory of Doghouse Riley’s “Petards Are for Hoisting“:
HERE’S the thing about D’ines’h D’Souza: he found himself a nice little sinecure in America defending the Raj. That comes with a price, of course. Not in swallowing the understandable anger and disgust the Anglo-American Man’s Burden must engender in its erstwhile subjects; that sort of thing seems to go down easy with second or fifth-generation mandarins. It’s just that, inevitably, someone with D’Souza’s rh’torical gifts has got to figure (and rightly so) that These People Are Dumb As Stumps, and go looking for further fields of plunder.
Lacking Hitchens gifts, D’inesh had to settle for life as a Toolbelt to the neocons, and pan for gold among the evangelical dross, jettisoning his Catholicism somewhere along the way. Sorta. (Again, fortunately for D’Souza, in those circles one can now be a best-selling Christian apologist without taking sides on the Reformation, which has apparently been relegated to the intellectual dung pit alongside the Trinitarian debate, the question of translation, and the George W. Bush administration….
Or Josh Fruhlinger at Wonkette:
“God has a mighty future for Dinesh, but there are some things he has to go through first”, said [King’s College chairman Andy] Mills [tweeted].
We assume this is nice evangelical code for “the restraining order stipulates that you must remain 150 yards or more away from our campus at all times.”
Steve M. at No More Mr. Nice Blog points out “DINESH D’SOUZA’S PENIS IS NOW HELPING US LOSE THE WAR WITH ISLAMOFASCISTS, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT“:
Dinesh D’Souza, the married, 51-year-old right-wing author and inspiration for the film 2016: Obama’s America, once wrote a book called The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11. The thesis of this book is that the loosening of conservative moral strictures in the West is alienating Muslims, and Muslims, as a result, are so pissed off that they feel they have no choice but to kill us…
Following his own logic, we can only ask: Why is Dinesh D’Souza encouraging Islamofascism and destroying the life of his own daughter?
(In a completely inexcusable sidenote, the Daily Mail assures me that D’Souza has retained his taste for what my Irish nana called “rat-faced bottle blondes.”)
The single funniest paragraph on this topic so far, however, was posted by the man himself, at the end of a six-point masterpiece of legalistic hair-splitting and wounded feelings:
… Ultimately this is… about how we Christians are supposed to behave with one another. And the secular world is watching. Is this how we love and treat fellow believers? If my conduct was improper, wouldn’t it be the decent and charitable thing to approach me about it? Instead, here is a clear attempt to destroy my career and my ministry. This is viciousness masquerading as righteousness. And this is the behavior that is truly worthy of Christian condemnation.
This is the man responsible for 2016: Obama’s America, based on his invention of a President Obama driven by his dead father’s “fanatic anti-colonialism” to attempt to destroy all that is good in America and the world. But then, D’Souza does not believe that President Obama is the right kind of Christian, I suppose…
D’Souza’s inexplicable failure to cite the time-tested traditional “At least I wasn’t despoiling a virgin” Biblical double standard in his own defence set me wondering: What of the mysterious Charles Bovary in this Randian romance, the Mr. Joseph II whom Dinesh’s latest soulmate married only last December? (Presumably, when he told her how she should vote, he forgot to add “Also, don’t spend the weekend in a Comfort Inn with another married guy, even if he is willing to tell his sponsors you’re his fiancee.”) Is Mr. Joseph II resigned — perhaps even a little proud — to lose his helpmeet to a Galtian hero with a higher Q score? Does he repine in their once happy home, surrounded by the faux-french Pier-One “avarices” Denise lusted after in her now defunct blog?
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