September 2008
117 posts
“If I believe that Jesus is God and you believe Mohammed is God, then no matter...”
– Larry Charles
I am excited for Religulous to open this week.
How the World Would Vote for U.S. President →
(via excitablehonky)
One reason why I think Obama will win
My dad told me something last night that I’m still struggling to believe. His father, my grandfather, will be voting for Barack Obama on Nov. 4.
My grandfather, a 77-year-old white man born and raised in Missouri, who as recently as Christmas referred to Obama as “that other guy.”
A man who flew the stars and bars alongside the stars and stripes behind his golf cart on property...
“Imagine stalking elk past department store windows and stinking racks of...”
– Tyler Durden
And to think we may not even need Project Mayhem to get there…
CBS to air potentially embarrassing interview this...
It’s not immediately, but airing what Howard Kurtz called “embarrassing” responses Wednesday and Thursday before the VP debates will suffice.
Nice play, CBS!
The Press on Sarah Palin
I was encouraged after watching the video of Jack Cafferty blasting Sarah Palin’s performance on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric last week. Especially so when Wolf Blitzer tried to spin it in the name of objectivity—explaining that she was trying to cram a lot of information—before Cafferty cut him off, saying she should at least know the basics of the situation if she’s...
I hate the IRS as much as any tax-paying citizen, but I hope they take every cent they can from these criminal pastors [it feels so good to type that] who broke federal tax law over the weekend.
John McCain's words vs. actions
What he said: “I know the veterans and I know them well. And I will take care of them. And they know I’ll take care of them.”
What he did: voted against expanding the GI Bill earlier this year.
“You don’t say that out loud. If you have to do things, you have to do things.”
- John McCain on Obama’s stance of threatening Pakistan for harboring terrorists in Waziristan.
Kind of like our stance on torture, right?
What I wish Obama would say
“Yes, Osama bin Laden and Gen. David Petraeus have said that Iraq is the central war on terror. But you know what, John?
IT WASN’T BEFORE WE WENT THERE.”
Name-dropping Miss Congeniality twice in one debate, John? Are you jealous that Giuliani used to run around in drag or something?
It took 33 minutes to drop the terrorist card.
It’s 25 minutes into the debate and I’m pretty sure I would be three sheets to the wind if I had followed Zach Klein’s Debate #1 Drinking Game Rules just based on the smirk factor alone.
WatchA low blow? Probably.
An accurate representation of the ill-informed? Probably not.
But at 1:55 I think it provides a telling argument as to why John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Submit your most clever rule for the Presidential... →
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(via zachklein)
tylercoates:
notthatkindagay:
southpol:
I never thought that in my I would ever read the following, much less from the digital pages of the National Review:
One side effect of McCain’s debate gambit is, I’m told, that everyone at Ole Miss now hates him. It will make for a very hostile audience tonight among those students and faculty attending. He might have to apologize for creating the...
“The choice is you got a guy that’s worth $150 million with 12 houses...”
– Chris Rock
Ron Paul: My Answer to the President →
Ron Paul explains how history is repeating itself with our current economic disaster, and Congress doesn’t seem to be listening.
WatchWords escape me.
She should have just used the old standby “they took my words out of context.”
“So here’s what happens: the economy is about to crater. You’re a...”
– David Letterman
“If this was so important, why didn’t McCain suspend his campaign NOW and...”
– Americablog.com
Is there a way
tylercoates:
homophile:
to filter out any posts that include certain keywords from appearing on your Tumblr dashboard?
I would really like to filter out any mention of “McCain” or “Obama” until 2009. Because, really you guys, 10 pages of “OMFG MCCAIN WANTS 2 SUSPEND CAMPAIGN WTF” really kills your buzz.
(I probably wouldn’t filter Sarah Palin out though, but that’s just for the hot mess...
Wario Land: Shake It →
teddytumblstoo:
Keep Watching.
This is probably the coolest thing YouTube has ever done, even if their programmers likely had nothing to do with it.
Get with it!
I know it’s only the first preseason game, but if the media made such a stink about it being the first preseason game (EVER) that’s a near sell-out, why can’t I find the final score to tonight’s Blackhawks game anywhere on the Chicago Tribune’s website?
Oh well. thanks, ESPN!
“We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government...”
– GOP 2008 Platform (via)
excitablehonky:
Sweet Lord, Leonard Pitts does it again:
I’m reminded of how someone challenged me the other day on my contention that anti-intellectualism has overtaken this land. I mentioned by way of example Palin’s Bible literalism, but really, there’s so much more. There’s the “Jay Walking” segment on Leno. There’s this notion that “elite” is a four-letter word. There’s the White House’s...
“The government’s actions encourage moral hazard of the worst sort. Now...”
– Ron Paul on the recent government bailout
Hate to say I told you so...
Apparently my advice column never made it out to the Left Coast, as, according to a witness, a Sacramento man was shot by a panhandler today after refusing her request for money, then adding that she should “get a job.”
Sounds like the lady who got 14 teeth knocked out of her head for the same three words got off easily, as this dude would have been toast had his attacker’s gun...
Creationism: Your questions answered →
Questions and answers on Creationism, which should be discussed in schools as an alternative to the theory of evolution.
Roger Ebert has been on fire lately!
I know I have a larger appetite than the average person when it comes to news and politics, but it frightens me that CNN is just now front-paging the story about Wasilla, Alaska, charging women for their own rape kits while Sarah Palin was in charge, and how police chief fought to keep it that way.
I don’t know why MillerCoors doesn’t just call Sparks Red by its proper name: Hangover in a Can.
I’m pretty sure Bill Maher just gave his funniest closing monologue to New Rules in the history of Real Time. FreeLevi.org. I was laughing so hard it brought tears to my eyes.
And yes, I spent my Friday night alone drinking Newcastle and watching a political talk show.
LOL Facebook posted items
One of my Staunch Republican Facebook contacts who has a knack for cracking me up with his delusional, inflammatory posts linked to this gem today. According to the video uploader:
[“The View”] is very biased. They throw one conservative on at the end of the row, and then whenever she gives her point of view they attack her. This video goes to prove that they do have an agenda,...