The NY Post reports that Ann Coulter has had her jaw wired shut.
Maybe there is something to this whole karma thing.
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From the monthly archives:
November 2008
Barack Obama really should have trade marked his ‘yes you can’ slogan to avoid having people like Roni Lynn Deutch abuse it like this…
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Billy Kimball seems to think so…
President-Elect Barack Obama’s transition team is reported to be deeply divided over whether to offer a post to Monica Lewinsky, the former White House Intern whose intimate relationship with President Bill Clinton led to his impeachment.
Until now, Lewinsky was one of the few high-profile figures from the Clinton Presidency who had not been recruited for the incoming Obama team. Mr. Clinton’s brother Roger is another, though on Friday there were rumors he would be named ambassador to Spain.
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I was just over at Huffington Post and I saw this ad for some kind of “energy” pills supposedly used by Lance Armstrong …
If I was Lance, I’d be trying to stay as far away from any kind of performance enhancing pills as possible.
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I know it’s a long time until 2012. But if this recent Gallup poll is any indication, the Republicans haven’t learned a damn thing from this year’s terrible loss.
67% would like to see Sarah Palin to run for President in 2012!
I guess she’ll have plenty of time over the next four years to go back and relearn all that stuff she seems to have forgotten from her high school government and civics classes.
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A loyal reader informed me today that the makers of the racist Obama sock monkey doll are back at it.
They are advertising their product using Google ads again. This one showed up in Google Mail:
In addition to the Obama Sock Monkey, they are also selling a John McCain doll.
Call me overly sensitive if you want, but a monkey doll named after a black man is racist no matter how many white monkey dolls you surround it with.
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It’s kind of funny looking back and seeing how different things were a year ago.
Hillary Clinton was still in the running for President. Marc Dann was still in office and being asked to apologize for his Jesus on Good Friday comments. But, funniest of all, Ohio’s righty bloggers were still trying to convince us that the economy was strong.
My favorite good economy evangelist has to be Tom Blumer over at BizzyBlog. Tom was so fucking wrong in almost every economic prediction he made last year that I am completely surprised he hasn’t shut the whole blog down and started over.
Pretty funny given that this guy teaches other people “money management, retirement, and investing” for living.
According to Tom’s Testimonials, Matt Naugle called him “a more talented, natural economist than any of those pointy-headed Keynesian halfwits.”
Which shows just how little both of these bloggers understand about anything related to the economy.
As we are now well aware, the economy was, one year ago, headed quickly downward. Yet Tom Blumer spent the entire month of November 2007 trying to disprove rumors of a recession and convince his readers the economy was doing great.
I’d love to include more examples, but BizzyBlog really is painful to search and even more painful to read.
So you’ll have to trust me when I saw the following examples are just the tip of the iceberg.
On November 20th, 2007 Tom suggested MarketWatch should be running with the headline “Economists: U.S Will Dodge Recession.â€
Today’s actual headlines show a different story as U.S. Automakers beg for a bailout, Citigroup considers selling itself, U.S. stocks slide to 11-year lows and, of course: “We’ll be in Great Depression 2 by 2011 — here are 30 reasons why”.
Tom Blumer: Fail
On November 26th Tom post the great news about Cessna planning to add 1,500 jobs in 2008.
Last week Cessna announced it is cutting 665 jobs.
Tom Blumer: Fail
On November 27th Tom promised his readers that the retail sector is “both growing and profitable” and “consumers are in pretty good shape”
And where are we now?
“Retailers looking to cut costs during a slowing economy cut 38,100 jobs on a whole in October. The drop was the 11th consecutive month of job losses in the sector.”
Tom Blumer: Fail
On November 29, 2007 Tom wants people to believe that “home-price declines are not pervasive throughout the nation”.
The Dispatch reported yesterday that home prices are down 5.5 in Central Ohio and almost 10 percent nationally!
Tom Blumer: Fail
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Yesterday’s news that McCain has narrowly captured Missouri’s electoral votes has broken a streak of Missouri picking the presidential election winner running back to 1956.
This means that Ohio – with a streak of picking the winner running back 12 elections (the last time we were wrong was 1960) – is the nation’s new bellwether.
Take that, Missouri.
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To defend Barack HUSSEIN Obama or Ayman al-Zawahri. With us or against us!
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So I’m still not sold on Barack Obama’s choice of Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State. I’d much rather see him choose Bill Richardson. But either way, he’s doing a good job of keeping his appointments (or leaks of possible appointees) diverse.
In addition to his possible selection of a woman (or hispanic) for Secretary of State, he has chosen a Jew (Rahm Emanuel) for his Chief-of-Staff and leaks have revealed that he is considering Eric Holder, an African American, for Attorney General.
There does seem to be a pattern here.
I predict that his next pick will probably be a white guy. Just to show people that he isn’t too radical.
But after that, he’ll be making an appointment from the LGBT community and a Republican – not necessarily in that order.
Personally, I’d like to see him pick Republican Chuck Hagel and transgender Mayor Stu Rasmussen. Again, not necessarily in that order.
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I’ve been waiting a long time for the battle between the extreme social conservatives and the moderates in the Republican party to kick into high gear.
It looks like it may have just started here in Ohio with a fight between Dewine and some Catholic College Republicans.
Comments made by incoming Ohio GOP Chairman Kevin DeWine have outraged Republican Party leaders in Jefferson County, Ohio. At a press conference, DeWine claimed the Republican Party has lost its way because of issues like abortion and marriage and wants to abandon any focus on the issues.
“What DeWine doesn’t understand is many GOP activists and voters across the state, especially here in Jefferson County, are Republicans because they are pro-life, not the other way around,†said Mary Novick, president of the Franciscan University of Steubenville College Republicans. “If the Ohio Republican Party abandons us and refuses to voice our values, we will abandon the party.â€
I’ve never been a big fan of Dewine, but I think he really is on the right track with his thinking. There aren’t enough people in Ohio or anywhere who vote strickly on their extreme, socially conservative beliefs. You can’t build a whole party around hating gay people and trying to take away women’s rights.
To revive the Republican brand they are going to have to move more to the middle and focus on things like lower taxes and smaller government.
But I’m SO glad so many wing nut Republicans disagree.
Let’s get ready to RUMBLE!
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Speculation has been brewing since word of an offer and meeting between the two. Guardian is reporting Clinton has accepted:
Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration, the Guardian has learned.
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I really hate it when people tell me “you’re better than that”.
It usually comes in an email or a comment in response to some ranting post and usually takes a form similar to “How DARE YOU use the word [insert non-PC term here (e.g. retard)] to describe [insert name of retarded asshat here]. You are better than that.”
It would be nice if people really did have such high opinions of me. But saying “you’re better than that” never actually means that. It is rude and condescending – like something your third-grade teacher might say after you get caught cheating on a quiz. (“Why are you cheating, Joseph? You are better than that.”)
Every time I get an email like that I want to scream. And I want to respond with a post. A post telling the world that I am, in fact, NOT “better than that”. If I was then I wouldn’t have done it in the first place. That seems pretty obvious.
I’m not a third grader. I know full well what I am doing. And I always debate writing a nasty response to people who tell me “I am better than that”.
“I know it’s tough to hear”, I always want to write. “But I really, really am not ‘better than that’. I am, in fact, just ‘that’. It’s true. Deal with it.”
Unfortunately, I never respond like that. Instead I usually act like a scared third-grader.
I try to explain myself or make excuses or, if none of that works, then I apologize.
But not any more.
Not after reading this post by Andrew Sullivan.
His post is a simple, elegant response to an email he received from a reader who was mad at him for using the word “midget”. The reader was specifically upset by this sentence:
Prop 8 has helped unearth the seething homophobia in much of black America. Even for a dandy, feminized midget like Prince.
Personally, I thought it was pretty funny. The reader? Not so much.
It would have been very easy for Andrew to ignore the reader and move on to more important things.
But I have a feeling Andrew, like me, is sick of hearing people tell him he is “better than that”.
And so he responded – perfectly. His response will now serve as a template for me.
Instead of ignoring the reader’s comment or making an excuse or apologizing, he simply printed the complete email sent to him by the reader complaining about his use of the word ‘midget’.
And then he linked to a hilarious clip from South Park showing Eric Cartman fighting a ‘midget’.
Humor, my friends, is always the best response. Thanks for the lesson, Andrew.
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There are rumors that Joe Lieberman may get to stay on as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
I say fuck him!
He pissed all over Obama during the campaign and he deserves ZERO loyalty from Barack now.
Bernie Sanders seems to agree:
“To reward Senator Lieberman with a major committee chairmanship would be a slap in the face of millions of Americans who worked tirelessly for Barack Obama and who want to see real change in our country. Appointing someone to a major post who led the opposition to everything we are fighting for is not ‘change we can believe in.’”
Lieberman is a traitorous rat and he needs to lose his chairmanship. Period.
Obama can come out against it if he feels like he has to, but Harry Reid needs to punish Lieberman and he needs to do it now. Or else Reid again proves he is not up for the job as Senate Majority Leader.
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Rod Parsley again proves he is just a selfish prick who pretends to talk to God to steal people’s money.
He actually fucking says “show me the money!”
( ht )
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