The New Road

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What the hell kind of election is this?

(Ed. Note: Let me be clear. In no way am I advocating violence against anyone. I'm just pointing out some scary wingnuttery here. I really like John McCain. I'm just not voting for him because there is this other guy, Barack Obama, who is going to be absolutely fantastic for this country.)

I heard something amazing on right wing radio yesterday. A guy called in said he was voting for McCain because that was a vote for Palin who he hoped would take over quickly after the election. In other words; he wants McCain to die. What the hell kind of election do we have here?

It's no wonder that McCain doesn't want to be in the hall on election night to tell his supporters the results. It could be life threatening for him.

This is just crazy. No wonder John looks older in just the last few months. He has made this Faustian bargain and it's destroying him and his legacy. At best his voters think he is the better of two evils, at worst they want him dead. Wow.

It's sad. Really. What the right has come to.

Can you name one other person?

Watch this dumb-ass right winger melt down when he is actually pressed on the facts:

This will happen in any argument you want with any right winger. They have these bullshit lines that they chant to each other like robots without understanding anything. But when you actually hammer them for facts... nada. Nada.

The trick is to bring them back to their primary argument. Take the 'Barack is a socialist' line. Ask them if a 3% tax hike on the rich means we are becoming socialist. They'll say Barack wants universal health care. To that you can say, factually, that he doesn't. He just wants to extend existing health care coverage to the uninsured. Now the whole socialism argument is gone. So they will probably retreat to Ayers, or Khalidi, or something. That's when you have to bring them back to 'socialism' again. Make them justify their points or abandon them.

For too long righties have been able to use 'hit and run' tactics in arguments without any consequences. We need to demonstrate, just like Rick Sanchez does here, that serious people make serious arguments that have factual a basis and can be defended.

Pillhead loves the snacks

Pillhead (pictured left) spent some of his multi-million dollar air time today mocking the average folks shown in Obama's commercial. He spent an inordinate amount of time criticizing these people about their snacking habits. Sage advice coming to one so girthed. Truly. Thoughtful advice, spoken with heft, into a golden microphone.

It's great to see conservatives like Rush coming down from their horded piles of cash every four years to laugh in the face of address the concerns of the little people.

Thanks Rush. May your blessed chalice of oxycontin never run dry, may your maid always score your smack for you, and may your visa to exotic locals known for child prostitution always pass customs.

Obomber

Here is a disturbing little trend I've noticed of late; conservatives mispeaking Barack's last name so that it sounds like Obomber. Check out Rudy here throwing it in on the sly:

Disgusting low-lifes like Rush Limbaugh just come out and say it. But Rudy likes to do it on the sly. Expect four years of this from the lunatic fringe of the Republican party. Oh, actually, just from anyone on the Republican side since at this point lunatics are all they have left.

Some of the things righties say...

Make me really sick. I clawed tooth and nail to get to my mothers bedside before she died and I did not make it in time.

To criticize Barack for taking whatever transportation he needs to get there in time is disgusting beyond all understanding. These people know no bounds.

Spin baby spin

On the conservative side; on the stump, at the debates, and on Fox News a liberal getting a $400 haircut is outrageous, but a conservative spending $150K on clothes is just fine.

You guys get an A+ for consistency!

The Obamas Go Shopping

Here is a cute fluff piece on the Obama's going clothes shopping:

I don't think this piece was done in reaction to the $150K Palin clothes scandal. It doesn't have a political feel and you don't bring kids into a hit piece and put it on "Access Hollywood".

I love Michelle and Barack talking about the $30 gap dress. That's a classic moment.

Scott Kleeb

I really like this guy:

He's a good presenter. He is empassioned. He makes great points. And he seems to genuinely want to work towards solutions and not just more partisan bickering.

Palin - $150,000 on dresses

Shocker! I don't have a problem with the McCain campaign spending $150,000 on Palin's outfits. Fair or not, women are expected to look very well dressed at the national level of politics. And that costs a lot of money. Women's clothes are expensive. Really, really expensive. So I don't have a problem with this.

I have a little bit of a problem with Cindy McCain spending $300,000 for the one dress she used on the final night of the RNC convention. That's a bit rich. According to Obama 95% of Americans make less than $250K. And here Cindy is spending $300K for a dress she will wear once.

Anyway, just wanted to put it out there that I don't agree with every negative meme coming out of the liberal side. Plus there is a whole lot more to bash Palin on. Like her not knowing what the fuck her job will be.

Palin - President of the Senate

You know, the Constitution isn't that long. Perhaps Palin should actually read it at some point:

You are kidding me, right? The VP has one role in the Senate and that is to cast the final vote in the case of a tie. It happens very rarely. She won't be getting in there and mixing it up.

Wow. She is scary. Really, really scary.

And what's with this talking down to the audience thing she does? It's like she thinks we are five year olds or something. The only big words she uses are Senate and policy. You know, Sarah, five year old's can't vote.

Ayers - Gaming it out

The best attack line that the right has against Obama is the Ayers connection (insert sinister music here). It's very weak. You can easily convince yourself on how weak it is simply by trying to game it out, as I will demonstrate in a moment.

But first, here are the sinister facts as Fox would have you believe. William Ayers was a member of the radical Weather Underground in the 60s. He was involved in bombings but was somehow never convicted nor spent any jail time. He is now a professor in Chicago who is by all accounts an upstanding citizen. He was even endorsed by Mayor Daly. Barack Obama was eight at the time of the bombings. He later served on a board with Ayers. It was until months after their meeting that Obama learned about Ayers past.

According to the right wing pundits Obama should have never associated with man in the first place. He either should have quit the board, or admonished Ayers at the board, or refused to shake his hand or something.

This is that point at which I want you to actually think. Try and put yourself in Obama's shoes. He wants to be on this board. It's an education board. It's important. He's been serving on the board for three months. He finds out about Ayers past and...

Quits the board: He wants to be on the board. The board is good. Why should he quit? He could try to get Ayers fired, but the guy is now an upstanding member of the community.

Admonishes Ayers at the board: Have you ever been to a board meeting? They are about an hour long. They have a fixed schedule. And usually they run over because people talk and talk. So where exactly is Obama supposed to insert this admonition? Is that filed under 'new business'?

Refuse to shake the Ayer's hand: That's a non-starter since Obama didn't get this history on Ayers until several months after their first encounter. You can't exactly stop shaking someone's hand just right off like that. Besides, it's a petty response. If he really wanted to make something of it, he should do more than just stop shaking his hand.

Now, stop. I really want you to try and go through each of these. What would you have done? Don't play the moral equivalency game. Don't try to think about two other people. Think Obama and Ayers. What would you have done if you were in Obama's shoes.

As you can see, the arguments of the right on Ayers just fall apart when you actually game it out.

Chris Matthews got Pat Buchanan on this point a couple of days back. Pat had now answer. He just tried to divert the topic to David Duke to create a false moral equivalency.

Ayers is the best they have. And you can see how weak it is. Watch Hannity sometime. He'll give you his list of shady associates for Obama, starting with Ayers because Ayers is the strongest case. I just debunked Ayers in 200 words with a simple mental exercise. The right has absolutely nothing on Obama.

Pro-America

I'm kinda late on getting to this little treasure from Caribou Barbie:

"We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans. Those who are running our factories and teaching our kids and growing our food and are fighting our wars for us. Those who are protecting us in uniform. Those who are protecting the virtues of freedom."

I'm getting kinda tired of right wingers saying that I'm less than patriotic, less than pro-American. I work very hard, I'm extremely patriotic, and I love America. That's why I'm voting for Barack Hussein Obama.

O'Reilly for CTO

No, not that O'Reilly, I mean Tim O'Reilly. Barack is looking for a CTO for America and I think Tim is the right man for the job. He's a high tech community organizer. Building bonds between open source and closed source, software and hardware, vision and implementation at his Foo Camps. I was at one of the first Foo camps and I can tell you that it's amazing to see Tim build the synergy of the participants. He is exactly the kind of open thinker and motivator that we need to help provide the government support for the next generation of our high tech economy.

RWOTD

Here is today's right wing racist slur against Obama; yard ape. Not actually a new one for me. I first heard this one when I moved to Miami and had my first trip on the school bus. One of the kids gave me a first class education in racial slurs and then tried to indoctrinate me into Atrox the local wing of the white power movement.

I convinced my parents to buy me a bike that night and I biked back and forth to school after that.

Cool heads in the mob

Here are a select few reasonable McCain supporters standing up against a wingnut:

Nice.

W.

Who is 'W' supposed to appeal to? For liberals, like me, the movie doesn't go nearly far enough. Bush is given the pass on almost all of his crimes. And his major blunders, like the Iraq war, aren't explained well enough to convince anyone just how wrong he was. And for conservatives, well, it will be just another smack in the face.

We needed a few years in between the end of the Bush era and the first true accounting of the disaster. In the meantime I recommend people watch Frontline: Bush's War. It's factual, accurate, well reported and will give you a complete overview of how we got into this mess. And honestly, the facts are all an open-minded person needs to see to understand just how negligent/criminal the Bush team was in the preparation and prosecution of the war.

That being said. I'm really torn. On the one hand I want to give the Obama administration a fresh starting point. You know, forget the past, deal with the present, move on... all that. But on the other hand, we have a real problem in this country. We have a cabal of Nixon-era power junkies who end up infecting each conservative administration with an increasingly vitriolic toxin. Which leads me to believe that while this administration was terrible, the next conservative administration will be even worse, if that's possible. Unless we send a few of these jokers to jail. Teach the young Republicans of today that they can't pull this crap and get away with it.

So, interesting dilemma. Ford tried to pardon them away. FAIL. Reagan was all but ancient history by the time Clinton got into office. And now there is us. Will we let the Bush cronies take the pass, and make millions selling books about how they got away with it to the Hannity mob? Or will we prosecute? And will prosecution even work when the right has such an effective media machine? Ugh. It just makes me shake my head.

More ACORN hate

If you want to see just how low some folks on the right can go, have a listen. I think these folks are still restraining themselves, by the way. That's actually a happy thought since the hate diatribes are read off with a kind of coldness that is either scripted (and thus restrained), which I prefer, or an ominous sign of true malice.

Oh, here is a new game for us to play, "New Racial Epithet Of The Day!" Since the kooks on the right will likely be introducing us to a new one every day from here until the election:

New Racial Epithet Of The Day: blue gums

Obama campaign worker attacked

More neanderthal rage about Obama and ACORN. This man should be in jail. I'd love to live in a swing state now just so that I could work security for campaign workers.

The sooner this thing wraps up the better. Every day that Palin, McCain, Hannity and Limbaugh are out there throwing red meat to their goon mob is another day where the violence will be ratcheted up.

Claire From Heroes Backs McCain

Not. ;-)

ACORN - Silliness turns potentially deadly

The fact that anyone might get killed over this ACORN stuff is really distressing. The ACORN controversy is completely made up. Here is why:

1. Just because you request the right to vote with a registration card, doesn't mean that right will be granted. Nobody is granting MIckey Mouse, or the Dallas O line, the right to vote.
2. ACORN is required to turn in every registration they receive by law. ACORN itself knows these are fraudulent and tells the registrar so. But they still have to give the registrar the forms. Why? Because a couple years back Republicans sent their cronies into Democratic neighborhoods, signed people up, then shredded the forms. So now we have a law. A law that ACORN follows. That says forms that were filled out, no matter if they are knowingly fraudulent, have to be submit. And when you pay people $8/hr for forms, you get a lot of bogus forms.

Anyway, as you can see the whole ACORN thing is just a ruse. The right wants to ensure that when they lose they will be able to claim fraud and not have to admit to have running a horrible campaign.

This election already has a body count, which is sad in it's own right. To add onto that a killing over this made-up ACORN nonsense would be very very sad indeed.

Bachman - A whole bag of crazy

This pretty much speaks for itself:

What gets me is how these people and their supporters talk about being truly patriotic, and then when Hannity talks with them on his radio show about an Obama presidency they automatically talk about starting a coup or a revolution. I guess it's only patriotic to support the government if the government is right wing.

Lil' O'Reilly

Lil' O'Reilly is fucking killing it:

Awesome.

Obama Nazi?

You'll let me know if this makes any sense, right?

I seem to recall during my visit to Dachau that black people were in the list of those who should be exterminated.

Joe The Plumber

Joe the plumber made a big splash at the debate last night. Right wingers are freaking out because Obama told Joe that we should "share the wealth" which they think means that Obama will steal all his money and give it to lazy people. Turns out that Joe's company only makes $130K a year, so Joe is likely to get a lot of money back from the feds. Ooops. And even if Joe's company made more than $250K he would only pay 3% more tax on the income above $250K. Which means that he would likely pay a few hundred bucks more. Ahhhh!!!! Socialism!

Joe himself has made some interesting comments since his thrust into the spotlight. He compared Obama to Sammy Davis Jr. and his tap dancing. Hmmm... Yeah. He also said that he thought he had been used by Republicans and wished the debates hadn't focused on his problems. Yeah, me too, Joe.

McCain - Loser^2

Hmmm, yeah, this is what I thought of McCain's attacks:

McCain was obsessed with nasty attacks. Obama took the high road and concentrated on what matters; the concerns of the American people.

McSame just reinforced what we have come to know about him; he is just another Republican scumbag who is more interested in politics than in helping the people.

Is this the way a President is supposed to react when he is effectively countered on a point?

Ugh, loser.

Righties spinning democracy as bad

I was listening to some right wing talker yesterday and he tried making this argument. Politicians are beholden to the people that give them money. And since Barack had millions of Americans all giving him little bits of money it's as if he has millions of lobbyists. Huh? It's a bad thing that Barack would be beholden to the people? Huh? Isn't that, like, democracy and what not?

Andy Martin

I usually don't link to this kind of stuff, but it's breathtaking. This is the anti-Semitic campaign letter sent by Andy Martin in support of his own campaign. This is the same guy who started the Madrassa smear against Obama. As well as supporting the Ayers smear as recently as last week on Sean Hannity's Fox show. It's just disgusting. It really is.

Ode To Hannity

Spot fucking on:

Hannity is such a piece of crap. And what's worse, really, to me, is how many people actually take him seriously.

I've been ranting for months about the hate that Hannity engenders. Hannity built the lunatic fringe base that even the conservatives now decry. These brain dead morons who listen to his show believe any ridiculous propaganda that Sean chooses to impart about Barack. And it's always all lies. Easily debunked. Each and every one. But they don't. And so they show up at these rallies, wave their monkeys, shout 'kill him' and 'traitor', and let loose this furious anger.

People are getting hurt and killed over this. A Muslim school was gassed. Campaign workers have been shot. A church was attacked. And for what? What logical sense does any of Hannity's rantings, or his supporters, make? None. Nada.

I had hoped we were better than this, as a country. Sadly I was wrong. And what's worse is that even the reasonable folks I know on the right side have yet to actively stand against the hate.

RNC pulling money from McCain

As I predicted, the RNC knows a loser when they see him and they are pulling money from McCain and giving it to the Senate races. They say they aren't, but really they are. If they thought $5M would give the race to McCain they would spend it.

In related news the governor of Florida had better things to do with his time than campaign for McCain. Turns out the 'better thing' was to go to Disney World.

Yeah, McCain's a loser and conservatives are running from him and the Republican brand as quickly as they can.

Ayers attack failure

It's interesting to me how the Ayers attack line has been a complete failure. McCain saw the poll numbers dropping to the point where just the rabid right were still behind him and so he has changed course. Now he is between a rock and a hard place. If he attacks Obama with the Ayers line on Wednesday he will alienate the independents and lose any long term credibility he has, as well as the election. If he doesn't attack then he loses the rabid base and any chance at the election. Wednesday will be very, very interesting.

Signs Of The New Economy

In what I'm sure will be an ongoing series, here is a random observation of the effects of this wonderful new economy. As I left the parking lot of a local grocery store I noticed a SUV tucked away in the corner with a blanket over the front seat. From all signs it looked as if someone was sleeping in the car. And what I came to realize was that I had seen a lot of this recently.

Later, at the hardware store, I had some time to talk to the checker as another person went off to check a price. I related my experience with the SUV and she said that she had seen a lot of that as well. That in her experience a bunch of folks had turned these McMansions into multi-family dwellings to afford the mortgage and that foreclosure had left them all on the street.

Another bad sign was at the hardware store itself. They were having a big, well publicized, "no tax" event. I'd had the misfortune of going to that store on other "no tax" events only to be unable to find a parking space. But today was just like any other day. Just a few cars in the parking lot. Lots of associates, expecting the big turnout, but just a few people were shopping.

Everything is tightening up. Where I used to get five or more requests for my resume per week. I got just one last week.

It's bad now, and this is just the beginning.

Limbaugh - Fact free

I had the misfortune of listening to Rush Limbaugh (pictured left) yesterday. I couldn't find a single fact in anything he said. Normally folks like Hannity and Limbaugh have a blend of facts and lies so that the listener has some sense of trust in what they are saying. Now they have moved to just 100% pure lies. Which helps to engender the amazing level of hate in the base. It's getting really, really ugly at McCain/Palin events.

I'm not really sure what the McCain/Palin strategy is at this point. All he seems to be doing is whipping up the base while losing his chance at getting moderates. He has to know he can't win with just the base. And the more these rallies end up looking like something you would seen in 1930s Berlin the more he is going to drop any hope at the Presidency.

Biden doesn't understand WASPs

I'm really offended by Joe Biden. Clearly he doesn't understand White Anglosaxon Protestant (WASP) psychology:

"All of the things they said about Barack Obama in the TV, on the TV, at their rallies, and now on Youtube and everything else," Biden said — referring to McCain and Palin tying Obama to Weatherman bomber Bill Ayers and accusing him of "palling around with terrorists."

"John McCain could not bring himself to look Barack Obama in the eye and say the same things to him," he said to cheers. "In my neighborhood, you got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him."

Look at someone in the eye and tell him mean stuff to his face? Joe, that just isn't the WASP way, buddy. We smile and pass pleasantries to your face. Then we stab you in the back as soon as you turn around.

Clearly Joe just doesn't understand what it means to white. ;-)

McCain/Palin hide behind Hannity

McCain was too gutless to confront Obama directly about Ayers at the debate. Even though he said that he would. So instead he went back to comfy Fox News and talked it up with Hannity. To my eye, it just looks pathetic. McCain looks weak, beaten and un-Presidential. And Palin, she just sounds like a harpy.

Look at the interview. Is this something a President would do? It's really low slime merchant type stuff. It's pathetic that McCain would do this himself.

Let's see if he brings it up at the next debate. He probably won't. He only seems to be able to smear in friendly crowds.

How long until the RNC pulls out?

A couple of months back the big "inside baseball" political news was that the RNC was pulling all of it's funds from Congressional races to concentrate on the Presidential race. But now that McSame has all but flushed that down the drain one has to wonder how long it will take the RNC to pull funding from him and put it back into maintaining a reasonable presence in the Senate. At this point they look to lose the White House as well as give the Democrats a 60 vote veto-proof majority in the Senate. That would leave the entire government under their control for at least two years. Are the Republicans going to let that happen? Or are they going to try and keep Coleman's seat (as an example.)

You're such a whiner

McCain's economic advisor:

You're just a bunch of whiners. The economy is sound! Really!

Town Halls, Ugh

Never follow the advice of losers. Seems simple right? You see a shambling wreck on the street with a sign that says; "Repent. The end is neer" Do you follow his advice? I don't. Because he is a loser. It may sound harsh. But it's common sense. You don't follow the advice of people who have driven their own lives into a ditch.

This is why I didn't vote for Bush in 2000. People kept asking me; "Aren't you tired of the Clinton drama." Sure. But George Bush is a loser. He ran his oil company into the ground. He ran his baseball team into the ground. And now, we clearly see that he is the worst President in history. He is a loser. Always has been. Always will be.

McCain is a loser. His distinguished military career involves crashing five planes and becoming a POW. One of his crashes lit the ship on fire and it burned for a week. He came home, got into Congress, and immediately sold his vote to Keating and was censured. Then came the Iraq war and time and time again he got it wrong. Even the surge, which the right wing media has spun as a success, is actually too early to call. A state of affairs we don't hear too much about with our fixation on the economy and the election. His insistence there cost us billions and will likely have simply drawn out our failure in Iraq.

This is why I was glad when Barack blew John McCain off about his 'Town Halls'. Look. The format sucked. And having ten of these things would have been a nightmare. Barack didn't follow the advice of John McCain because it was a dumb idea. A dumb idea that came from a loser. And winners, like Barack, don't follow the advice of losers, like John McCain.

Don't vote for McCain. He is a loser. He doesn't know how to win. Being mavericky is not a strategy for winning. Being prudent, doing the right things, working consistently towards success, that's how you win in politics. Barack is smart. He knows how to win.

For once, please, just once, let's actually get someone in the White House who is a winner. We need that. Right now. We need that.

Traitor, Terrorist, Etc.

Hasselbeck thinks Obama is a terrorist:

Check out the video starting around 3:02. Whoopi tries to get Elizabeth to just admit that Barack is not a terrorist and she won't do it. She goes right into how McCain was cleared and how Ayers was a terrorist.

This is what I hate about debating conservatives. They genuinely feel that they are absolutely correct and unless you agree with them 100% you are a traitor, or a terrorist, or a communist, or whatever.

Bill Krystol and the NYT

I thought the pick of Bill Krystol, a high-level neocon and staunch defender of Bush, Cheney and McCain, was an odd pick for the New York Times. Since the beginning his editorials have been shredded for their factual errors. Now he is using the good name of the New York Times as a platform for launching ridiculous attacks, like the preposterous Bill Ayers non-issue.

Watch how Barbie McBrainless uses the NYT as a point of credibility:

The New York Times was once a distinguished paper. But with these editorial miscues they are losing that credibility fast. What a shame.

This whole Ayers controversy, starting on Sunday and leading the talking points on Monday at Fox, on the campaign trail, on The View and on radio reminds me of the coordinated right wing smears of a couple of years back. At least on this issue it looks like the right wing noise machine has found it's footing once again.

Let's Talk Keating 5

Here is an excellent short film on McCain and his sell-out to Keating:

McCain is no maverick. He is a corrupt old-school crony politician.

Palin - Hannity In Action

After listening to her responses over and over again it's clear to me that Palin is just like a Hannity caller who won a contest to become a candidate. She actually believes the Hannity insanity that she speaks. My favorite line of hers recently is about how Obama should be disqualified because he says that we air-raided villages in Afghanistan and in her world that means he should be disqualified. Thankfully the world that counts is The Constitution and it doesn't say anything about vetting our candidates through the mind of a fruitcake like Palin.

Ah, well, she has about as much chance of getting elected as Hell has of freezing over.

Speaking of which, I did my Obama calls today. We were calling into New Mexico where we have a good chance of turning the state blue this year. The folks I talked to were all about Obama. I asked one guy how he was doing, he said he wasn't feeling too well with the chemo. We chatted a bit about that, but he got really excited when he learned I was with the campaign. He was in the hospital, surrounded by his friends and family and when he said Obama there was a roar of applause. Cancer can't keep these folks down. Si se peude! Si se peude!

Update: Palin is back at it again, this time talking about the right wingers made up connections between Obama and Ayers, a Hannity favorite talking point. Of course, the connection between the two is the same as that between the Easter Bunny and the planet Saturn, but who the hell cares about the truth, right?

Along the same lines the McCain surrogate on Rachel Maddow brought up Obama's debunked connection to Raines when she was pushed on McCain's campaign manager's very real lobbying for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. When pushed the surrogate simply gave up the line and went with another argument. Which is what the right wing always does. What a joke.

Palin - Barfing in my ears

Palin was way over-prepped for this debate. Her mind was so filled with stuff that her mouth was having a tough time keeping up. She would get half a thought out, then switch gears and go a different way. Biden on the other hand spoke slowly, clearly, even repeated things at some points. He got the point across. And you could see that on CNN. The meters for her just stayed flat and went consistently up for Biden.

Speaking of the meters on CNN, it was interesting to see what the independents did when Palin hit her Republican talking points. Waving a white flag of surrender? The meters went negative. Attacking Biden for talking about Bush? The meters went negative. The independents just aren't buying the Rush Limbaugh pill popper points.

Right Wing Junk Journalism

I had a long talk with Tom Orr at Palestra.net about this obvious piece of junk gotcha journalism. He feels that nobody in a public place has any expectation of the usual consent required to publish statements. Palestra is a content partner of Fox News.

So much for being a legitimate news agency. These people are indoctrinating our next wave of journalists in how to hijack people into making incriminating statements. What a joke.

Black + Homeless = No Vote

According to Fox and Friends and Shelby Holliday if you are black and homeless you should not be allowed to vote:

While I think it is kind of these volunteers to lend a helping hand, I don't understand the big push to get homeless people to vote. If these guys don't even know where they are going to be next week, why would you want them voting in your state and affecting your electorate? Why would you want them voting in the first place?

Yeah, these guys shouldn't be voting. Just because they are Americans and all doesn't mean they should be able to vote and what not.

Palin on Hannity

I tuned in for Palin's pre-debate spin with Hannity yesterday. Every single thing she said annoyed me. First she goes off on how 'liberal' Biden and Obama are. I don't think that critique has the same sting it used to given where eight years of pure conservatism has gotten us.

Then she talked about how the economic problems are because I'm addicted to credit cards. She comes after us, the people, personally. How is that it's ok for conservatives to knock the folks but when liberals talk about how we do simple things, like recycle, we are being un-American commies. Consumer spending is 2/3rds of our economy. Asking people to hold off on spending is like begging for a recession.

Every answer she had just left me shaking my head thinking to myself; "Where has this woman been? Hasn't she seen what eight years of Bush has done to the country?" She's a throwback to the year 2000. She think she can venomously spit the words 'liberal' and laud 'tax cuts' and she will win.

She's also gutless. Her little Biden slam where she mentions in a speech that she has been hearing Biden speeches since second grade. Then she defends it against Couric by saying it's a compliment. Gutless. Weak. Sniveling. It's school yard Rush Limbaugh tactics that have no place in real politics.

That's really it, isn't it. She's a female Rush Limbaugh. She would be much better served being on Fox News as a contributor than she would be in actual charge of anything. Look at how she ran Wasilla into the ground. And how she is ridden with scandals as Governor.

Speaking of which, word out of Alaska is that if she doesn't make VP she will likely face impeachment over this Troopergate thing.

Apple Rocks

I was getting a little angry at Apple since my MacBook Pro was taking so long to repair. However, I got through to the Apple store yesterday and they completely replaced the laptop. Just like that. More processor speed, more hard drive space, just like that. And all I had to do was plug it into my backup drive and viola, just like, well, old, again. But this time without the slowness, the dead speakers, the wonky keyboard, and the fritzy display adapter. Nice!

You would think this is a negative review of Apple. It's really not. If I were to have the same problems with a Dell or Lenovo I believe the answer I would have had was 'f*ck off' when it came to getting a replacement machine.

Just one thing. If you get a Mac, get Apple Care. In fact, if you buy anything from Apple, get Apple Care.

Palin - The Joke That Keeps Giving

Couric is back with another portion of the batshit crazy Palin interview:

She can't name any other Supreme Court decisions other than Roe v. Wade. How about Bush v. Gore? Brown v. Board of Education? Seriously. This is a joke, right? At some point McSame is going to come out and be like, "Heh, my friends, I was just kidding, Mitt Romney here is my running mate."

Ah well, the joke who keeps on giving will be debating tomorrow night. I can't fucking wait.

Muslim Kids Gassed

Perhaps the most disturbing event that happened over the last two weeks was kids being gassed at a Mosque in Ohio. It's more right-wing craziness brought on by inflammatory propaganda designed to inflame the feeble minded. How do these people sleep at night?

Unwanted Blogging Vacation

My hosting provider messed up my hosting account and that left my blog in the lurch. After a little hacking it looks like things are somewhat back to normal.

So much to talk about. It's amazing. The last two weeks have been a whirlwind.