![]() Saturday, December 6. 2008Bailouts R Us
Tuesday, December 2. 2008GOP Handed its Ass on a Platter
Thursday, November 27. 2008Happy Bush Thanksgiving
Monday, November 17. 2008The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla - Dick Cavett
There she is with Larry and Matt and just about everyone else but Dr. Phil (so far). If she is not yet on “Judge Judy,” I suspect it can’t be for lack of trying. Ha ha, make him stop, too funny. You can read the entire article here Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home
Sunday, November 16. 2008Joe the Speller
Monday, November 10. 2008Palin Gives McCain a Push
Sunday, November 9. 2008Sarah Who
Saturday, October 25. 2008Ten Days and Counting Ten days to go, and each and every one seems to deliver more bad news for Johnny Mac. Palin's new 150K wardrobe, more GOP stalwarts like Scottie McCarron and C. C. Goldwater jumping ship, and how about the grenade the GOP tried to toss by accusing Obama of visiting Hawaii not to be with his ailing grandmother, but to steal his birth records which prove he's not a U.S. citizen. All horseshit of course, it's like they pulled the pin out of the grenade but forgot to throw it. And speaking of horseshit, did you catch that McCain volunteer, Ashley Todd, who got caught fabricating a whopper about a big black guy assaulting her and carving a backwards B on her face. Okay, you can't fault McCain for having a mentally challenged supporter, after all, there are a few more of those in his party, but you'd think he'd at least have the story checked out before calling her to offer his sympathy only to confirm more poor judgement on his part. The only thing these guys seem to be able to do well is shoot themselves in the foot.While we know a week in politics is an eternity, the enemy is running out of time for any sort of October surprise. The stars are just not aligning for McNasty, and they must be aware of it because already we're hearing rumors of a rift between the McCain and Palin camps. Being a dem, naturally I'm leery of seeing another defeat snatched from the jaws of victory, but at this late point can only see two scenarios; McCain either calls off the attack dogs in an attempt to preserve what little he has left of his dignity and go away quietly, or he goes all in and doubles down on the negativity. I suspect the latter considering the Rovian-trained crew he brought on board. But what's more alarming, accepting the realizaton that Bush, McCain, and the GOP have been wrong on every issue of importance to Americans, is the fact they still have these so-called pundits or surrogates willing to get up on their hind legs on your teevee and look you in the eyes to proclaim everything will be hunkey-dorey if you just give the republicans one more chance. It's one thing to be a fool, but it's quite something else to put your face in front of a TV camera and remove all doubt. This election has come down to who's stupid and who isn't. Without equivocation, it's clear that you can lead a republican to the kool-aid, but unlike a horse, you can actually make them drink it. Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home
Sunday, October 19. 2008McTurd!![]() With millions of Americans losing their jobs, homes, insurance, retirement income and hope, John McCain's response to the crisis has been to run around screaming at the top of his lungs, "Bill Ayers, Acorn, tax cuts and Joe the plumber." Little wonder it's been so easy for Obama to pin the out of touch label on his forehead. At the core of McCain's poorly run campaign was his willingness to go along with his campaign strategists who obviously convinced him to follow the Rovian blueprint of negative ads and dirty tricks. Well, could there possibly have been a worse time for these tactics considering the current economic climate? It may have worked in 2000, a period of unprecedented peace and prosperity when Gore should have run the Electoral College table on Bush, but it won't work now with real people suffering real losses. Even a few religiously insane nose-pickers are starting to comprehend that huge tax cuts for the already rich and a senseless two billion dollar a week war in Iraq have not worked in their favor. And isn't it fun to watch some of the smarter republicans jump the S.S. McCain. As they say, it ain't over until the fat lady sings, and regardless of the outcome on Nov. 4, McCain has exposed himself as a typical, pandering politician who will do or say anything to get elected. He has done a complete 180 since his failed attempt at the presidency in 2000 and gawd save us if he does somehow pull off an upset, because no one of sane mind will believe this election was legitimate. In the unlikely event Diebold, disenfranchisement and other dirty tricks carry the day for McCain, and Obama folds like Gore and Kerry did, McCain faces a dem House majority and a potential dem veto-proof Senate. He could be a lame duck on day one. Since he backed into the republican choice as their presidential candidate, his behavior has been contorted, confused, misleading and anything but presidential. His most important decision to date, his choice of Sarah Palin as his VP, will go down in history as a running joke that just keeps on giving. He's swirling down the toilet at such a pace that even his best new friend, Joe the plumber can't save him. John McTurd, RIP. Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home
Thursday, October 16. 2008You Can Put Lipstick On A Moose, But You Can't Make It Kiss Nicely Now that Vladimir Putin has been chased out of Alaskan air space by Guv-ner Sarah Palin, it's comforting for the rest of us to know that our most western front is so well protected from this trespassing peeking tom. If Putin sneaks into Alaska disguised as a wolf or moose, you should feel safer with Ms. Palin on guard, because with one wink she can vanquish any intelligent thought.Ms. Palin, a stanch believer in dinosaurs walking with man, a miscalculation by a mere 160 million years or so if you believe the overwhelming majority of world scientists, also believes in the good book, the bible, verbatim. The bible never even mentions dinosaurs which begs the question how could this all important book miss something so big? But even using George Bush's fuzzy math there is no way you could get a mommy and daddy dinosaur on a boat with biblical dimensions of 300 by 50 cubits, whatever that means, along with two of every other animal on earth at that time. What did Noah feed them, the other animals? Sarah also seems to believe in witch exorcisms and the end times, which is all well and good if you believe in nonsense and idiots running around loose, but my concern is how could a guy like John McCain, someone who supposedly loves his country first, pick such a lunatic as his backup, an admitted trigger-finger happy hunter with the potential of controlling the nuclear codes. You can put lipstick on a moose, but you can't make it kiss nicely. This election isn't just about jobs, the economy, the failed wars and disastrous policies of Bush. It's about all of this of course, and electing someone with the good sense to avoid the pratfalls of the past eight years. McCain has established that he is not the man to reset our course by virtue of his pick of this boob Sarah Palin. His choice ranks right up there with Bush's decision to attack Iraq. The man is simply not qualified to lead America into a better future. In a few weeks we will find out if American voters are smart enough to grab the reigns of their own destiny and throw out the bums. From what I've seen the past two presidential elections, it's a close call. Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home
Monday, October 6. 2008Swift Boat Express![]() To paraphrase red-ink Reagan, here we go again, so let the swift boating begin. The GOP, devastated that the polls gave Biden the win in last Thursday's vice-presidential debate, even though Palin was never caught picking her nose a single time, have opted for their time-tested campaign strategy, to swift boat Barak Obama. Ignoring the Iraqi and economic disasters they've once again zeroed in on what they do best, make crap up about their opponent. This weekend, they sent out Moose Mom to claim Barak hangs with a terrorist who threw firecrackers at a federal building back in the sixties. The guy in question, Bill Ayers, was a Vietnam protester. Never mind that Obama was eight years old when the Ayers protesting occurred, never mind Ayer's was never charged and is now a university professor who also does non-profit work for the less fortunate, and of course never mind that Obama has always discredited Ayer's and any other form of violent protest as credible behavior, Sarah Palin, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, claimed Barak Obama by association loves terrorists. People actually buy this shit, and far too many of them vote. You really have to ask yourself who in their right mind would buy this non-sensible crap, but obviously it works or why else would the GOP keep perpetuating it and winning elections cycle after cycle? As an observer I think John McCain tried to play it straight in 2000 and we all saw what Bush and Rove did to him. He's now come to believe that the only way to win on the GOP ticket is to fight dirty with Sarah Palin as a willing dupe. If you think about it, is winning power so important that you'll deep-six your principles to win an election based on outrageous fibs rather than considered and well thought out policy? McCain sold his soul for victory by virtue of his Palin pick. He won't release his medical records yet subjects the country to a VP, one heart beat away, who as we've all seen couldn't possibly be less qualified. There is no doubt in my mind that Obama will handle these swift boat assaults with the derision they deserve, but c'mon, how pathetic do you have to be for McCain to want to win on these terms? Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home
Wednesday, September 17. 2008Don't McWorry, Be McHappy Seems that many of my dem friends are aghast that Johnny McSame is close or even ahead in the so-called national polls. People forget that the pollsters get their data from respondents on land line telephones, and not cell phones. I don't know anyone in this day and age under 30, a big constituency of Obama's support, who still has a land line, so these polls can hardly be reflective. In fact, cell phones are increasingly becoming the sole communications tool for most age groups, which could render today's polling methods obsolete.Dems also seem to be appalled that McCain could receive a sizable bounce after selecting a light-weight, bible-thumping, gun-tooting' moose hunter from a distant area of land even further north than most of Canada. They can't believe that our guy Obama is at best even in spite of all the fibs, distortions and outright lies the McCain camp regurgitates, and this in spite of some surprise mild protestations from our cowered media who normally cave at the slightest hint of right wing backlash, and the related threat to cut off ad revenues to the corporate owners they work for. Heartbeat away VP pick Sarah Palin can talk about end times all she wants, but we've been there twice, in 2000 and 2004 and hell ain't pretty. Call me naive, I just don't think it's going to be a three-fer, for two reasons: the polls aren't accurate and McCain's political advisor's have gone "all in" with a dead hand. Lemme 'splain: McCain's Rovian advisor's, all lobbyists shilling for the military industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about way back in 1960, are so desperate to keep power, that they'll do anything to win. They can't make money during peace time. Only after 8 years of the disaster called Bush, their normal disgusting tactics won't be enough and so they're going to have to sink to even lower levels. That's why they're lying through their teeth at levels even a grade two class clown could see through. They've got absolutely nothing to lose. Of course they can't run on the issues, the wars, the state of the economy. All they've got is throw shit at Obama and the democrats and hope 51/% of American voters fall for it a third time. I don't think so. The repubs read the tea leaves after the very successful dem convention, which didn't implode as they were hoping, and decided they had nothing to lose. So they risked everything on an unvetted nobody hoping to pander to their base and disgruntled Hillary supporters, and what did they get? A VP candidate so weak they can't even let her talk to the press until she goes to the GOP College of Talking Points first. Barak Obama may not be a killer when it comes to a political mud fight, but he doesn't have to be. All he has to do is call a "major" press conference in front of the assembled cameras and scribes and simply state: "These are serious times, people at home and abroad are suffering miserably because of the policies of the Bush administration the past eight years. I have put forth serious and detailed solutions to correct and change this failed course. Meanwhile, my opponent John McCain, is running a campaign based on the same old tired, GOP game of false innuendos, a tactic he pledged not to do this time around. Well, John McCain lied to you about that, just as he's lying about what I've promised. He talks about putting country first yet he selects as his VP running mate a candidate who's only qualifications are appealing to the most radical, extreme fringes of his party. John McCain has approved ads that want you to think about pigs, lipstick and kindergarten sex. That's because he doesn't want you focusing on real issues, issues that effect you and your families. Issues that effect the safety of our country." "I think it's about time the media, that's you folks, started doing your job. Your job as the forth estate is to keep politicians honest. If I tell a lie or mislead, then by all means call me on it. If John McCain tells a lie, or misleads you, which he is doing every day, then you have an obligation on behalf of our country to bring this to the voter's attention. It hardly serves the interests of our nation to allow a professional politician, someone who is trained to spin facts, to use you as their megaphone to get away with untruths in a false effort to be fair, because in the end we all suffer." "That's all I ask. Any questions?" If all we asked as citizens and voters was for the media to do their jobs, and they did, we never would have heard the name George W. Bush. Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home
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