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Kinda like a brain fart…for blogs. I was confused while reading the latest post over at Tom Blumer’s place bizzyblog.com. I couldn’t make sense of the post at all. It’s down now and I guess wasn’t meant to be seen. I only wish the contents were more juicy.
Whoops:
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Obama to get first SC pick. Justice David Souter is retiring. Developing…
Let the librul activist court begin!
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Maybe it’s not a true, full-on blog war. But there’s certainly a battle going on between the Ohio Democratic Party blog and the blog for the Hamilton County Republican Party.
According to Todd at the ODP, it all started when “The Hamilton County Republican Party posted a photo on their blog of Arlen Specter, hairless from from the effects of chemotherapy, and compared him with a photo of the Austin Powers character Dr. Evil.”
Todd’s been hammering away at them ever since. And Hamilton County Republican Party Chairman Alex Triantafilou has been responding, first by commenting on his own post. Then by replacing the photo with a “censored” image. Then by removing his comments. And now by replacing the “censored” image with the picture of a kid frowning.
I’m guessing he’ll be totally removing the post next.
I’m starting to think Alex should enlist the help of self-proclaimed ‘new media ninja‘ Ken Blackwell to help him manage his blog troubles.
Kenny certainly can’t help Alex win any elections or fix his past mistakes. As a matter of fact Ken might actually make things much, much worse. But, at the very least, J. Kenneth might be able to give Alex some pretty useful advice: how not responding to controversy like such a little sissy.
Keep up the good work Todd.
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So I’m over at Townhall.com reading Ken Blackwell’s latest “article” about how Barack Obama wants to appoint liberal, activist, supreme court justices so he can take away your guns… And half way down the page I find a juicy little poll asking the following question:
Should the Morning After Pill be available to 17-year-olds?
Given that I’m seeing this poll on the ultra-conservative online web-rag townhall.com I assume that the majority of responses are going to be ultra-conservative i.e. NO! Absolutely Not!
Still, I figured I’d throw in a little liberal bias and click YES.
And then I see the results:
83% of “America’s engaged conservatives” think that 17 year old girls should have control over their own reproductive organs???
Wow. That certainly wasn’t what I expected.
It is possible that Townhall.com has absolutely no clue who their target audience is? Or maybe now we’re starting to see more American “conservatives” reject the fanatical Christian agenda that has recently come to define the Republican party?
Either way, I’m very sure this is something Townhall’s advertisers would like to know about.
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Any one want to guess how long it’s going to take for The Right to start blaming the impending swine flu pandemic on Mexico and to use it as another reason to blame non-white immigrants for all of America’s problems?
I’m guessing Lou Dobbs hints at it on Monday. And by Wednesday the Mexican-bashing will be in full effect.
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On the tails of the news that the GOP is putting RNC Chairman Michael Steele under pressure to call Democrats “socialists”…
We’re going to nationalize the RNC because they’re a failed business.
Lulz.
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Levi Johnston goes on Larry King and proves, without a doubt, that he lives up to his MySpace declaration: “‘I’m a fuckin’ redneck”…
Long live the Palin/Johnston feud!
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I always thought George Will was one of the least offensive conservatives out there mainly because he’s not one of those crazy religious zealots who believes Jesus is coming back in his lifetime to kill the gays with his Christ-powered laser vision.
Instead he belongs to that small group of well-dressed, east coast, Ivy League-educated rich kids who are Republicans because they resent having to pay taxes on their investment income.
I’ve often thought that Will and other conservatives like him really have more in common with ‘the liberal elite’ than with the typical Republican voter. And George’s latest article in the Washington Post further solidifies this belief.
Will, ever the dapper dresser, drapes praise on Daniel Akst for his WSJ article attacking Americans for their poor choice of trousers – specifically those made of denim. And while Akst may make a reasonable observation about Americans who, I’ll agree, tend to be fairly poorly dressed compared to their European counterparts – Will’s arguments take the case way past the point of simple observation, into the realm of insult, and back around firmly into conservative country – a land of exclusion and resentment toward people who do things differently.
Writer Daniel Akst has noticed and has had a constructive conniption. He should be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has earned it by identifying an obnoxious misuse of freedom. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, he has denounced denim, summoning Americans to soul-searching and repentance about the plague of that ubiquitous fabric, which is symptomatic of deep disorders in the national psyche.
Seriously, George?
“An obnoxious misuse of freedom” for wearing jeans?
When the KKK claims their freedom of speech rights allow them to hold public rallies hating on African Americans – that is an obnoxious misuse of freedom.
When homophobic preachers claim their freedom of religion rights allow them to spew nasty, anti-gay garbage – THAT is an obnoxious misuse of freedom.
But wearing jeans at the airport? Come on. Grow up.
And what the fuck is this crap about the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Writing a silly article for the WSJ hardly meets the requirements for receiving the medal of freedom…
“This great honor is reserved for individuals the President deems to have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”
By those rules the guy who invented blue jeans should actually get the medal. Not the guy who rips on one of the biggest cultural trends in recent American history.
I think I’m going to take the opinion of one of the most respected fashion designers of the 20th century instead of the pretentious fucks who write for the WSJ:
“I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.” – Yves Saint Laurent
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When the clergy are losing faith it’s time to pay attention:
One of the most prominent proponents of free-market capitalism is having second thoughts.
Judge Richard A. Posner, a federal appeals court judge who has been called the most cited legal scholar of all time, discussed his doubts and his analysis of the current financial crisis in a wide-ranging interview with the Huffington Post.
A longtime proponent of deregulation, the idea that business works best in a free market without burdensome government regulations, Posner began to change his mind when he realized the enormity of the crisis. This change of heart inspired him to write his upcoming book, “A Failure Of Capitalism.”
“If you’re worried that lions are eating too many zebras, you don’t say to the lions, ‘You’re eating too many zebras.’ You have to build a fence around the lions. They’re not going to build it.” – Judge Richard A. Posner
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Hilarity. Simply pure unadulterated hilarity. Andrew Sullivan on Tom Blumer:
John Cole finds the single dumbest political opinion piece on the internet.
Our own Bizzy! LOL. We’ve known all this for years now. Not precisely how you wanna be famous, I’d guess. 
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The thing about context is it’s easy to find in this day of the Google. The other thing about context? It’s a bitch. Especially if you want to espouse some bullshit notion that our President is a communist. Enter impressionable youth in hoodie from the teabagging in DC:
What’s that at the end?
Free Market Philosophy
“One of reasons I am running for the presidency is to bring this philosophy to an end!”
Here’s the problem with the “quote” on the T-shirt. You can look it up on teh Google. The only place you find that exact quote is on a handful of rightwing sites. Given how heavily covered Obama speeches and campaign events were, what is the chance Google missed the transcript?
Zero.
What you will find though is this speech in which Obama is talking about how we got into the financial mess we are in:
This financial crisis is a direct result of the greed and irresponsibility that has dominated Washington and Wall Street for years. It’s the result of speculators who gamed the system, regulators who looked the other way, and lobbyists who bought their way into our government. It’s the result of an economic philosophy that says we should give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else; a philosophy that views even the most common-sense regulations as unwise and unnecessary. And this economic catastrophe is the final verdict on this failed philosophy – a philosophy that we cannot afford to continue.
So was President Obama talking about the “Free Market Philosophy”? No, he was talking about trickle down economics, greed, and irresponsibility. Something wingnuts now…you know…protest against!
Even if you do have some success finding the exact phrase “One of reasons I am running for the presidency is to bring this philosophy to an end”, you won’t find it in the context of talking about the “Free Market Philosophy”.
Context. It’s a bitch.
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