Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
For those who are interested, a poem. One that every Canadian kid probably read and memorized in grade school:
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
A physics game. Use the objects on the screen to get the solid green box inside the green box outline. Fun. Aggravating, but fun. If I gave you this link duriug the week, you’d never get any work done. Think “paper plane.”
Word has it that Rush Limbaugh has joined Erick Erickson in chasing down any fool rightwingers who stand in Sarah Palin’s way. Embarrassing the McCain campaign with her stupidity was not enough. Dragging down the entire GOP ticket and defrauding the party was not enough. It still won’t stop. The mere memory of Palin (who, sensibly, retreated quietly to Alaska) still has the GOP punching itself in the face while Democrats plan and build.
Do not plan on the entertainment ending any time soon. Those still defending Palin are the types who think the rest of the party’s blinkers are not screwed on tight enough. They will not, can not, admit that that they are wrong. The limb won’t heal, it will get stinkier the longer it stays on there, but good luck with the amputation. Politics is a boxing match.
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Alternate post title: The Great Foot Hunt.
Also: heh.
The site is running like Jonah Goldberg in a 10k turkey trot and yet you guys rack up 400 comments in two posts. Try not to fill this one so fast.
10:59 pm: Virginia goes to Obama. Snoopy dance.
10:50 pm (Tim) – I’ve ragged on Goldberg a few times lately, so I owe it to him to point out that this is a classy concession speech, notwithstanding the financial incentive that the author of Liberal Fascism!!1one1eleven! has to paint every Democratic move as proof of America-hating totalitarian evil.
10:48 pm- BTW- I just finished another beer, and wanted to throw this out there- Larry Johnson and the PUMA’s can go die in a fire.
10:47 pm (John) I want to get this in one last time- Everything you have heard so far is good news for John McCain.
10:42 pm (Tim) – FOX predicts that Obama walks away with Virginia. Will McCain even deliver a concession speech, or will he just go to bed?
10:40 pm (John)- Any word on Murtha? Would love to see him lose. How about Bachman Traitor Overdrive? Any word on that cyst?
10:34 pm (John) – In a just universe, there would be a channel where Jeffrey Toobin, David Gergen, Eugene Robinson, and Chuck Todd would all be together, and the rest of these folks could be thrown into a woodchipper.
Also, in case I gloat too much, my mother reminded me I once thought Ryan Leaf was a franchise pick. Hell, I voted twice for Bush. That beats the Leaf bust hands down. John +9 or something. I see Parliament of Funk and a cigar in the short-term future.
10:22 pm (Tim) – Johnny Mac win Texas. That should revive the party at McCain HQ.
While I try to get at least a little work done today. Drinking begins promptly at 7.
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Eastern standard time.
I see a number of libs linking to this NBC interview with Mitt Romney:
VIEIRA: So, let me ask you, would you characterize John McCain’s campaign as dignified and honest?
ROMNEY: Well, what I’d characterize the entire campaign as is extraordinarily negative on the part of Barack Obama. […]
VIEIRA: So you think his campaign was dignified?
ROMNEY: Well, I think it’s going to come down to this, and I think that is, who is going to be able to keep America safe and who is it that’s going to add jobs. […]
VIEIRA: Governor, not to beat a dead horse here, but once again, do you believe that the campaign was dignified?
ROMNEY: Was it dignified? It was presidential.
Let me be the first to say “Who cares what Romney thinks?”
A couple quick points:
1.) Democrats and liberal bloggers need to stop paying attention to trivial stuff like this. Who cares what Mitt Romney thinks? Besides, every time you quote these morons, it just gives them an opportunity to play the victim and whine about media bias abd “gotcha” questions. The walkback, if it is deemed necessary, has probably already begun.
2.) Mitt Romney lost to McCain, and this can easily be dismissed as sour grapes.
3.) Mitt Romney wouldn’t know a dignified campaign, anyway. This is Multiple Choice Mitt, who changed his message every day, and, if you remember correctly, was the wingnut choice before Sarah Palin. In fact, he was Sarah Palin before Sarah Palin. Remember this, from CPAC:
ROMNEY: You are with me all the way to the convention. Fight on, just like Ronald Reagan did in 1976.
But there is an important difference from 1976. Today we are a nation at war. And Barack and Hillary have made their intentions clear regarding Iraq and the war on terror: They would retreat, declare defeat.
Screw Mitt Romney. He wouldn’t know grace, honor, or dignity if it bit him on the ass.
Senator Durbin’s daughter has died.
Christine Durbin, the oldest daughter of Sen. Dick Durbin and his wife, Loretta, died Saturday of complications from a congenital heart condition in a Washington-area hospital, the senator’s Washington office announced.
Christine Durbin was one of three children in the Illinois senator’s family and had worked for 16 years in the Department of Agriculture’s emerging markets division in Washington. Christine Durbin also is survived by a brother, Paul; a sister, Jennifer; her husband, Marty Johnson; and a son, Alex.
“Chris Durbin, 40, fought a heroic, lifelong battle with heart disease and our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Durbin family,” the senator’s office said in a statement.
Her death comes days before Durbin, who ranks second in the Senate Democratic leadership, seeks re-election Tuesday. Durbin’s office said funeral arrangements were pending.
Just awful. I don’t have kids, but I can’t imagine being in a position where I outlived my child. Condolences to Senator Durbin and family.