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December 01, 2007
Banana Heads Fire Another Scientist
A Texas schools science administrator was fired because she, you know, supports science and therefore evolution. Aravosis at AmericaBlog:
...may their children compete against the children of my friends and family for jobs.
Right on, John. Two things here worth repeating over and over whenever this issue comes up: 1) Mike Huckabee is a creationist, and 2) The Banana Theory.
07:45 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Ari Fleischer Confirms Rove's Lie
“It was definitely the Bush administration that set it in motion and determined the timing, not the Congress,” he said. “I think Karl in this instance just has his facts wrong.”
I'm wondering when Newsweek will let him go. In fact, I'm wondering how a known ratfucker and flimflam artist was allowed a job there in the first place.
07:15 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
The Myerstown Herald
In my latest thing for the Huffington Post, I mentioned a local weekly newspaper here in eastern Pennsylvania called The Myerstown Herald. Here are some headlines from this week's issue:
-Goons Slash Tires on Hunter's Vehicle
-Knuckleheads Key Vehicle
-Vehicle Hits Vehicle, Flees
-Punk Punctures Eight Tires
-Pumpkin Punks Attack Vehicle
-Lunkheads Steal Lighter, Air Vents
Awesome. And yes, this newspaper is very real. However, I've cycled through Myerstown hundreds of times and I've never seen any punks or goons. Knuckleheads everywhere, but no goons.
10:27 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Smoking You Out Of Your Hole
How the hell did I miss this? Wednesday night, Olbermann reported on a story in which New York fire officials have been:
"told to be alert for a person who is hostile, uncooperative or expressing hate or discontent with the United States."
At last check, an ABC News poll indicated that 75 percent of Americans are discontented with the nation.
10:00 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
The Post Responds To Freaky Bloggers
The Washington Post is slowly wheeling out their responses to various rips on their integrity for printing rumors about Senator Obama on their front page. Peter Baker for the Washington Post's Trail Blog:
Any reasonable reading of the story makes clear they are not true. Right there in the second paragraph, it says Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ in Chicago. In other words, a Christian, not a Muslim. And yet the bloggers seem to think readers are so stupid they will actually think the Post is saying the opposite.
Yeah, Peter, then Bacon's article continued by printing ANONYMOUS rumors suggesting the UCC affiliation is just a ruse and a front. To wit:
Another e-mail, on a site called Snopes.com that tracks Internet rumors, starts, "Be careful, be very careful." It notes that "Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim," and that "since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when you are seeking political office in the United States, Obama joined the United Church of Christ to help purge any notion that he is still a Muslim."
Furthermore, Peter, bloggers don't think readers are stupid. Readers don't print anonymous horseshit on the front pages of major newspapers. Especially anonymous horseshit about a Democratic candidate who is falsely, subversively and ANONYMOUSLY accused of being an Islamic terrorist.
Maybe it's the Washington Post that's stupid for not recognizing the national hysteria and fear surrounding the war on terror, and how such a story could inflame and incite jingoistic vigilantes and anti-Islamic bigots. Some readers -- perhaps certain people whose neck is redder than most -- might skim through the item and see what they want to see.
Another response appeared on the Post Political Hour. BarbinMD at Kos asks when the Post will cover several other rumors on the internets.
When do you suppose the Washington Post will print a front page item about Rudy Giuliani's rumored desire to be a woman?
09:06 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
08:40 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
November 30, 2007
You Know Who's A Dick? Jay Leno Is A Dick.
Leno fired his entire staff today. I suppose the unfunny douche needs all of his money for his unfunny douche motorcycle collection.
"We haven't heard from him since the second or third day of the strike," the former staffer said."He called on speakerphone while we were in our daily meeting and said, 'Don't look for other jobs , no one's going to lose their house, we'll get though this.' Two weeks ago, we got the heads up that we had two more weeks (of pay) and that's it. Everyone wondered, 'Is Jay going to come through?' And nothing happened. Conan makes less and he said, 'I'm going to pay for my people.' "
Damn fucking straight. Conan and Letterman are both paying their people. Leno makes $27 million a year. In other words, he could pay his staff $5 million, and he'd still make $21 million this year.
CORRECTION: $27 million minus $5 million is $22 million. I'm a dingus. Also, for the sake of clarification, Leno's non-writing staff was laid off. The writers are still employed as far as I know.
CORRECTION 2: It turns out that NBC laid off the staff -- not Leno himself. I made a mistake and thought that Leno owned the Tonight Show in the same way Letterman owns the Late Show and therefore jumped to the conclusion that Jay Leno gave the final word on the lay-offs. I'm terribly sorry for the confusion.
UPDATE: Leno has decided to pay his staff after all.
06:15 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Wingnut Google Ads... Again
So in addition to the Fred and Senator McCain ads, we're now getting Ben Stein ads. Jesus. Does anyone know how to specify the ads that Google drops into the mix? And no, dropping the ads altogether is not an option.
05:13 PM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Hostages Taken At Clinton Office
This is horrible. Two hostages have been released so far, and the suspect appears to have a bomb strapped to himself.
More.
UPDATE: And now CNN is reporting that two trains collided near Chicago.
UPDATE II: CNN, "Witnesses described the man as in his 40s with salt-and-pepper hair, WMUR reported."
UPDATE III: WMUR says that the suspect is "known in Rochester" for having mental illness problems.
UPDATE IV: His name is Troy Stanley. I wonder why middle-aged white guy Troy Stanley wasn't thwarted by the president's Evildoer Posse.
03:16 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Roger Smith Dead At 82
I assume they'll be moving his remains to Mexico.
11:57 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Andy Card Debunks Karl Rove
This is awesome. Former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card on Scarborough:
SCARBOROUGH: We have to start with something that we all are talking about a couple of days ago where Karl Rove went on Charlie Rose and he blamed the Democrats for pushing him and the president into war. Is that how it worked?CARD: No, that’s not the way it worked.
SCARBOROUGH: What the heck? Seriously, what the hell was that about?
CARD: Democrats pushed us a lot of stupid things, but they didn’t push us into war.
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, yeah. You worked with Karl. Is that just Karl spinning beyond the White House?
MIKA BRZEZINSKI:Spinning out of control?
CARD: Well, Karl is very smart. He’s — sometimes his brain gets ahead of his mouth. And sometimes his mouth gets ahead of his brain.
Of course we all knew that Rove was full of shitola, but it's nice to hear it from the man who ran the White House for six years.
10:46 AM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Obama/Bloomberg
Senator Obama had a "mystery" meeting with Mayor Bloomberg this morning, accompanied by the strong odor of Rice Crispies and the vice presidency. If this ticket were to happen, they'd still lose the south, but they'd be unstoppable everywhere else. But... I don't think it will happen. The senator would almost have to pick a southern governor to keep all the freakdogs from a'stalkin'.
UPDATE: You know what? On second glance, this could have been a meeting about an endorsement.
08:56 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
A Muslim Lady! AHHHH!
Reynolds and Malkin and the rest of the screaming crying wingnut Blair Witch cast members are freaking out over the affiliations of several of the YouTube people from the debate. The latest one being a former member of CAIR.
So of course the big question is... so what? CNN made it clear at the outset that anyone could submit questions. Then again, I suppose that after so many years of staged events and hand-picked friendly town hall audiences, a few opposition voices must really sting -- even when tempered by a softball question from the wingiest, nuttiest wingnut Grover Norquist.
08:41 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
This is quite possibly one of the top five greatest songs ever recorded. The video -- not so much.
08:28 AM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
November 29, 2007
He's A Democrat?
CNBC's Jim Cramer is a Democrat. I kinda gathered this after I saw him on Hardball one time and he, in a very roundabout way, alluded to maybe being a Democrat. I bought stock in Acuity the other day based on his recommendation. Acuity makes CFLs and there are rumors that they could be acquired by Phillips. Anyway, take that Republicans. Liberals and progressives can also be rabid capitalists.
06:35 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
That Darned Liberal Media!
CBS is running with the Washington Post story about the Senator Obama rumors. Horse's Mouth has more.
There's another side to this worth mentioning. I love it when bloggers are ripped by the traditional media (Washington Post, CBS, Joe Klein, etc.) for not being serious players in all of this. Here's the reality of it: most of us write various forms of op/eds, hardly any of us are paid and very few of us claim to be professional reporters. Yet the two most egregious violators of journalistic ethics this month have been the Post, CBS and Joe Klein.
06:06 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
New Huffington Item
I have a new article up at Huffington Post. For what it's worth, I switched days with Arianna this week -- hence the Thursday thing instead of the Wednesday thing.
05:29 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Washington Post's Whisper Campaign
This is an atrocity from your "liberal media":
Despite his denials, rumors and e-mails circulating on the Internet continue to allege that Obama (D-Ill.) is a Muslim, a "Muslim plant" in a conspiracy against America, and that, if elected president, he would take the oath of office using a Koran, rather than a Bible, as did Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the only Muslim in Congress, when he was sworn in earlier this year.
The Washington Post reported this as news -- on its front page. It's not unlike, say, Rove organizing push polls asking how South Carolinians felt about the rumors regarding Senator McCain's illegitimate black baby.
"Despite his denials," the Post wrote. If I had written that for my college newspaper years ago, our faculty advisor would've destroyed me in the post mortem because it implies guilt. Sloppy and unethical writing/editing.
08:43 AM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
I wonder sometimes how so many can be so blind.
08:30 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
November 28, 2007
To Be Fair...
Here's what I agreed with: Senator McCain on torture; Ron Paul on foreign policy; and, believe it or not, Giuliani on gun control.
Now, is it also fair to call them all douchebags anyway? I think it is.
11:01 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
My Mouth's Bleedin' Burt!
Was it just the color correction on my television or did it look like Fred Thompson's gums and lips were bleeding throughout the debate?
Also, I thought it was awesome when the Republican audience booed a retired Brigadier General. Republicans are so fucking patriotic.
10:14 PM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
September 11th, 2001
In response to a YouTube question about whether he exploits 9/11, Giuliani invoked the exact phrase "September 11th, 2001"... four times.
10:01 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Gun Control
There was seriously just a question in the Republican YouTube debate in which some dude asked if any of the candidates support gun control. CNN chose this and wasted time with it.
What's the next question? Would any of the candidates hire an illegal Mexican terrorist wizard to build a time machine fueled by cocaine in order to travel back in time to abort Jesus?
There were rumors about softball questions, but this was softer than Huckabee's turkey neck.
09:06 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
HA-HA! Funny! Bam!
There's a real life Save Tucker website (via TRex).
In it, they regard this disingenuous twerp as a "strong" conservative voice. If he's a strong one, the conservative movement is more fogged in the skull than previously observed.
(Let me know if this picture is too annoying. I like it because it screams out 'disingenuous twerp.' I can always replace it with Tucker in the Slim Goodbody unitard.)
05:55 PM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
We're Number 12
The UN's Human Development Index rankings of the best places to live:
1. Iceland
2. Norway
3. Australia
4. Canada
5. Ireland
6. Sweden
7. Switzerland
8. Japan
9. Netherlands
10. France
11. Finland
12. United States -- Woo!
13. Spain
14. Denmark
15. Austria
16. United Kingdom
17. Belgium
18. Luxembourg
19. New Zealand
20. Italy
We're number 12. But we have Skull Foggers (har-har) and Larry the Cable Guy, so that's something.
04:39 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Patty-Headed Hos
Pat Buchanan's new book:
The American majority is not reproducing itself. Its birthrate has been below replacement level for decades. Forty-five million of its young have been destroyed in the womb since Roe v. Wade, as Asian, African, and Latin American children come to inherit the estate the lost generation of American children never got to see.
We've heard this racist fearmongering before. White people (the "American majority") aren't making enough white babies and therefore the darkies will take over America with all their darky babies.
This is far, far worse than "nappy-headed hos" and I'll bet a dollar that High Pitch Buchanan is all over MSNBC tonight and many nights into the future.
04:10 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Fucking Clean Coal
The CNN YouTube debate tonight is sponsored by Clean Coal (more at Think Progress). I wonder if there will be any questions about mine safety, mountaintop removal or toxic runoff into lakes, streams and rivers.
(Speaking of which, mountaintop removal is heartbreaking to me. If you've ever been to the Shenandoah Valley and the Appalachians, you can surely relate to my feelings on this one.)
01:14 PM | Comments (4) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Oh noooooooooo!
President Clinton yesterday:
Even though I approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginning, I still resent that I was not asked or given the opportunity to support those soldiers.
President Clinton in 2003:
"I supported the President when he asked the Congress for authority to stand up against weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."
Best American president since FDR, but sometimes he baffles the shit out of me.
12:33 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
The YouTube Debate Tonight
I hope CNN picks some really crazy videos with ordinary Americans dressed in funny beards and stupid disguises. Because citizen participation in the process can only work if it's silly, low-tech and non-threatening to the traditional media's wicked seriousness.
08:58 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
Why would anyone disable embedding for their YouTube video?
08:07 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
November 27, 2007
Ehud Olmo And Mahoomid Abbas
Oh. My. Fucking. God. I saw this on Olbermann tonight. Your awesome president just totally mispronounced the names of Presidents Olmert and Abbas. In public. And on television.
I... I don't know what to say... This is the man whose entire administration has been about transforming the Middle East and HE CAN'T PRONOUNCE THE NAMES. So he has to resign. Resign, Mr. President. Right fucking now.
08:27 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
More Drunken Immigrants Gunning For You
Malkin is screeching about the drunk driving illegal immigrant epidemic again. By "epidemic" I mean "something the racist caucus of the GOP invented to scare each other pissless."
I'm not sure how drunk driving has anything to do with one's immigration status. Do they hand out beer funnels at the border?
01:48 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
He Not Good Diplomatter
The New York Times answers one of my questions about the president bailing on Annapolis:
In fact, Mr. Bush and his aides still deplore what they view as President Clinton’s disastrously hands-on involvement in the peace process in 2000. And they insist that Mr. Bush does not intend to negotiate personally the two-state peace he has pronounced as his vision....
Shorter: President Bush is no President Clinton. If Clinton failed, they seem to be reasoning, then Bush will definitely fail.
“The United States cannot impose our vision,” Mr. Bush told the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, in the Oval Office on Monday, before saying, and sounding, again, Clintonesque, “but we can help facilitate.”
Holy hell. I actually agree with the president. It's fucked up, however, that this President Bush doesn't agree with the other President Bush who has rained down his vision all over Iraq for six years now.
12:47 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
And Now I'm Leaving To Play Video Golf
One of the president's remarks today at Annopolis:
...the time is right because a battle is under way for the future of the Middle East and we must not cede victory to the extremists.
Yet he won't stick around to participate in the summit. I'd really like to know if the State Department has instructed him to stay away. After all, he's the inventor of "stop this shit" diplomacy.
10:58 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
The Decider Decides To Bail
Middle Easters are meant for bombin' not talkin'.
President Bush, who's largely ignored the risky business of Middle East peacemaking throughout his nearly seven years in office, will take center stage Tuesday at the international peace conference he's hosting in Annapolis, Md.He won't remain there for long, however. Bush plans to head back to the White House after delivering his opening speech to the diplomats and dignitaries at the U.S. Naval Academy, and while surprises are always possible, White House aides said he wasn't planning to offer new American proposals to resolve the conflict.
Jesus H! President Bush is such an embarrassment. Either he wants nothing to do with this thing, or his people are equally as embarrassed and don't want him anywhere near sensitive negotiations.
This summit is purely cosmetic -- in a cynical "we have to do this just because" way, anyway. If the administration were interested in peaceful solutions to Middle East problems, we never would have invaded Iraq.
09:02 AM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
The genius of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright.
08:51 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
November 26, 2007
Climate Skeptics Are Stupid...
...and they think you are equally as stupid. Here is Christopher Booker's latest thing for the UK Telegraph:
The scare over global warming, and our politicians' response to it, is becoming ever more bizarre. On the one hand we have the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coming up with yet another of its notoriously politicised reports, hyping up the scare by claiming that world surface temperatures have been higher in 11 of the past 12 years (1995-2006) than ever previously recorded.This carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest year of all being not 1998, as was previously claimed, but 1934.
I don't know nothing about nothing, but THE WORLD is different than THE US. Booker is mixing his statistics like an idiot and expecting the rest of us idiots to not notice. In other words, he's comparing the IPCC's world temperature figures ("world surface temperatures have been higher") to temperatures within the borders of the United States ("US surface temperatures showing...").
The fact is that the hottest year IN THE WORLD was 2005. The hottest year in the United States used to be 1934 -- but now it's 2006. The United States represents only 2 percent of the world's surface area.
Then Booker exploits this deliberately misleading information as the basis for the conclusion that the climate crisis is, "another vastly inflated scare."
And you know which idiot bought the lie this time? Drudge, of course, who presents this as legitimate news with the misleading headline:
Satellite Data Shows Temps FALLING Since 1998, declining to 1983 levels...
It's one thing for skeptics to dismiss the climate crisis with only vague references to actual science (as Tony Blankley did on McLaughlin this weekend), but Booker shows us some scientific data and believes -- hopes we're too dumb to notice that he's full of shit. I'm not sure if that's brazen, ballsy, moronic or all three.
09:06 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Blackened Friday
TBogg takes an enormous stinky dump all over Black Friday.
What the retailers and the retail analyst experts who haunt the airwaves after Black Friday are actually selling is the happy horseshit that all is well and you should spend spend spend just like the Joneses are supposedly spending spending spending.
And I second his enormous stinky dumping.
05:53 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
The President And A Fraud
The Fraud, of course, is on the right side of this photo. Imagine the world today if the president who we elected had actually been inaugurated. We're living in an alternate timeline -- it's Back To The Future Part 2 and Biff Tannen is the boss of Hill Valley.
05:34 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Senator McCain Says Stupid Things About Iraq
“Whoever designed that government ought to be taken out and shot,” he said, referring to the large number of Iraqi ministries…
Every neocon in Washington is scrambling for body armor right now. I mean, is the senator implying that, among other people, Vice President Cheney ought to be shot?
Next...
“Look, now the same people who were saying seven or eight months were saying you can’t succeed militarily, we’ve succeeded militarily.”
We have? Is Senator McCain really saying that major combat operations have ended? If so, that would be profoundly stupid and nearsighted.
And what the hell was this on This Week yesterday?
“There is progress politically."
Huh-what? No there isn't.
Senator McCain likes turtles.
04:21 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
The President's Weird Camp David Pictures
This is the president in his Camp David office over the weekend.
Notice the two wall hangings marked with circles.
On the left we see the famous yet totally fictitious painting of George Washington praying at Valley Forge. This scene never happened because Washington didn't believe that God intervened in human activities, and therefore he never actually prayed. Surely President Bush would know this because he read three (or four) books about George Washington last year.
In the circle on the right -- why the hell does he have a picture of his dog Miss Beazley about to be hit by car? That's weird and creepy.
Can anyone guess what all those icons are on his computer screen? The six icons towards the middle of the screen are: "Shortcut to Minesweeper", "Shortcut to Shortcut to Minesweeper", "Miss_Beaz_Hit_By_Truk.jpg", "Shortcut to Miss_Beaz_Hit_By_Truk.jpg", "Nekkid_Condi.wmv", and "Bomb_Iran.exe".
03:53 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
We're Back
The site was down for a while, but as you can see, we're rolling again. Someone told me that this site isn't something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck.
03:41 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
No Effing Way Out
A new agreement between the White House and the Maliki government has guaranteed that we'll be in Iraq forever now. Why? Because Iraq can't defend itself and is so destabilized that it won't be self-sustaining for a long, long, long time. Therefore our troops will continue to serve as a vulnerable barrier between warring factions. More from TPM.
Security: To support the Iraqi government in training, equipping, and arming the Iraqi Security Forces so they can provide security and stability to all Iraqis; support the Iraqi government in contributing to the international fight against terrorism by confronting terrorists such as Al-Qaeda, its affiliates, other terrorist groups, as well as all other outlaw groups, such as criminal remnants of the former regime; and to provide security assurances to the Iraqi Government to deter any external aggression and to ensure the integrity of Iraq's territory.
I wonder if Maliki knows that this means more mercenaries, too.
Amato at C&L discusses another side to this awful scam.
12:59 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Buchanan Predicting American Third World
I don't entirely disagree with Pat Buchanan when he writes:
"America is coming apart, decomposing, and...the likelihood of her survival as one nation...is improbable -- and impossible if America continues on her current course," declares Pat Buchanan. "For we are on a path to national suicide."
But I disagree with almost all of his reasons. For instance, Buchanan says that (paraphrasing) the brown people are destroying America's southwest and we'll be a third world nation by 2050. This is utter bullshit and a topic for another post.
Here's what I agree with him about:
• Free trade is shipping jobs, factories and technology to China and plunging America into permanent dependency and unpayable debt. One of every six U.S. manufacturing jobs vanished under Bush• Pax Americana, the era of U.S. global dominance, is over.
• Bush’s invasion of Iraq was a product of hubris and of ideology, a secular religion of “democratism,” to which Bush was converted in the days following 9/11
• As U.S. wages are stagnant, corporate CEOs are raking in rising pay and benefits 400 to 500 times that of their workers
• To avert a second Cold War, the United States should “get out of Russia’s space and get out of Russia’s face,” and shut down all U.S. bases on the soil of the former Soviet Union
And I half-agree with this (I disagree with the second half):
• To end the trade deficits and save the dollar, Buchanan urges a Hamiltonian solution: a 20% Border Equity Tax on imports, with the $500 billion raised to be used to end taxation on American producers
The end of America is something I've been hinting at in my recent essays for the Huffington Post. Naomi Wolf wrote a stunning book which Buchanan ought to read immediately.
12:02 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Trent Lott Resigning
He's resigning to spend more time with his racism.
Or... He's resigning to spend more time with his tiny old-man short pants.
That's all I got.
Also, Mr. Joshua asks: why so soon? He isn't up for re-election until 2012.
08:59 AM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
"I feel a little lost -- a little strange today."
08:27 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
November 25, 2007
Brought To You By... Irony
A commercial just aired during Meet The Press featuring a montage of natural disaster clips. The very last clip showed a city street flooded with water -- and a Hummer cruising through the water.
The tag logo? HOPE: HUMMER OWNERS PREPARED FOR EMERGENCIES. This is followed by a view of the planet from space. Eff you, Hummer and eff you, Meet The Press, for airing the worst commercial ever.
11:26 AM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Not A Success
Part One:
With American military successes outpacing political gains in Iraq, the Bush administration has lowered its expectation of quickly achieving major steps toward unifying the country, including passage of a long-stymied plan to share oil revenues and holding regional elections.
Part Two via Think Progress:
11:06 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Watch Your Step, People
The Democrats on Iraq:
As violence declines in Baghdad, the leading Democratic presidential candidates are undertaking a new and challenging balancing act on Iraq: acknowledging that success, trying to shift the focus to the lack of political progress there[...]
Advisers to Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama say that the candidates have watched security conditions improve after the troop escalation in Iraq and concluded that it would be folly not to acknowledge those gains.
I don't know how to feel about "acknowledging success." Fewer Americans have been killed, but that's only one small indicator in the overall Iraq picture... Iraq is, and will always be, a disaster. If we declared victory and withdrew today, there would still be an Islamic theocracy in Iraq. There would still be generations of anti-Americanism erupting from every city. The entire region has been destabilized due to this illegal invasion.
The Democrats should not be giving any quarter to the Bush Republicans on this -- no matter how begrudging the ackowledgement. The president's war is a failure on every level and he lied to the world. Acknowledging any small success in Iraq is like saying that the burglar who keeps robbing your house every night was nice enough to not pummel your kids this time.
10:37 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
G'Day Mr. Rudd
I like this guy already:
The day after sweeping to power in general elections, Rudd went straight into work mode, holding meetings with government officials about the mechanics of signing the Kyoto Protocol on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
The president doesn't have any more friends. Except Musharraf. That says a lot.
10:34 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Rudy Is Trying To Cheat
That crazy California scheme to split up the electoral votes so Republican candidates could steal them? Rudy's people were behind it.
10:23 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
Bill Hicks in Montreal, 1994.
10:02 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
