In Which I Proclaim My Love for Sarah
Everything changed the night I saw Sarah speak at the Republican National Convention. I was captivated by her passion, her perkiness, her adorably flat accent. Wouldn’t I just love to hear her say my name — to call me her own special “bad guy”? You betcha.
I have already composed a list of nearly three hundred catch phrases and special little pet-names we can use to ignite exchanges of whispers, giggles, and knowing looks with each other. I can’t wait.
Bush Ratings Lower Than Pirates, Wall St. Brokers
Washington, DC — Embattled U.S. President George W. Bush continues his long, slow decline into history’s dumpster.
A new Gallup poll places Mr. Bush’s current approval rating somewhere between Brussels sprouts and explosive diarrhea.
“The Administration’s handling of foreign affairs and the events leading up to the current financial crisis is taking a toll on President Bush’s credibility,” senior pollster R. Kevin Buck told news agencies Thursday. “It’s like watching a monkey trying to fuck a football.”
The Poetry of Sarah Palin
Hart Seely over at Slate had the odd idea of arranging sections of Palin interviews into poetical form. For example:
“You Can’t Blink”
You can’t blink.
You have to be wired
In a way of being
So committed to the mission,The mission that we’re on,
Reform of this country,
And victory in the war,
You can’t blink.So I didn’t blink.
(To C. Gibson, ABC News, Sept. 11, 2008)
UPDATE: MGS, apparently, beat me to the punch on Monday (I was sick, unwired, and watching the best of terrible TV, Gossip Girl. What’s your excuse?)
Tweet ‘08
Tweet ‘08 is a site that aggregates, counts, and sorts all the tweets about the Presidential race. It’s was incredibly fascinating to watch during the Veep debates. Apparently, tweeters overwhelmingly thought Biden was the winner.
Team of Mavericks
League of non-conformists.
Alliance of loners.
Gaggle of rebels.
Coalition of dissenters.
Neither side supports Gay Marriage!
I don’t either. Don’t call it Marriage! I don’t give a crap about what it’s called. But I want the same legal recognition for my commitment to my partner. Marriage is word play, why can’t we get past it?
Not watching. It.
Because I still yearn to believe in truth. And beauty.
So I’m watching the ball game.
“Talking Points” Caribou Barbie™
“Talking Points” Caribou Barbie™ from antichrista on Vimeo.
New “Talking Points” Caribou Barbie™ repeats phrases at random–you never know what she’ll say next! Doll really talks with eyes that move.* Includes hunting rifle, moose carcass, Bible and every single newspaper–Caribou Barbie™ reads them all! Rape kit sold separately. By GOP.
*Eyes move, but do not blink.
this is quite moving
A white union man takes on racism in the Presidential campaign.
(via andrew sullivan)
Let’s say
you live in a neighborhood of 200 houses, and the combined total of all that the neighborhood spends on security–alarm systems, guard dogs, etc.–is one million dollars. But $500,000 of that is what YOU, all by yourself, spend. Wouldn’t your neighbors call you a little paranoid?
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The Poetry of Sarah Palin
“Outside”
I am a Washington outsider.
I mean,
Look at where you are.
I’m a Washington outsider.I do not have those allegiances
To the power brokers,
To the lobbyists.
We need someone like that.
What it’s like to debate Palin
I opened a story on what it’s like to debate Palin, and the page was blank.
Update: Shit, I reloaded the page, and there was a story there. I liked it better the first time.
Y’all
Tomorrow I will be about four blocks from Palin. I am not sure how this makes me feel.
Today’s tea leaves
- TIME Magazine: “Let em fail!”
- The Wall Street Journal quotes Eliot: “This is how the world ends…”
- Bush and Obama are urging passage of the same bill.
- At this hour, the Dow is up sharply.
I can’t even pretend to understand this stuff anymore.
network
Telephone pole, street light, and locust tree on Alder Street in Pittsburgh.
I would not have imputed such pettiness to them
I saw
a big SUV with a window sticker: not McCain/Palin, but just Sarah.
Slacker Uprising
Michael Moore’s new film is available as a free download.
“Slacker Uprising” takes place in the wake of “Fahrenheit 9/11,” during the run-up to the 2004 election, as I traveled for 42 days across America, visiting 62 cities in a failed attempt to remove George W. Bush from office. My goal was to help turn out a record number of young voters and others who had never voted before. (That part was a success. Young adults voted in greater numbers than in any election since 18-year-olds were given the right to vote. And the youth vote was the only age group that John Kerry won.)
(thanks, Maggie)
It’s true. Sarah Palin is in a corn maze.
Sarah Palin is in a corn maze. This does not mean that Sarah Palin is actually in a corn maze, but that there is a corn maze made to look like Sarah Palin. You have to be looking down on the maze and not in it in order to see the likeness.
Courtesy of Jamie Rhein at Gadling.
Naked Bust of Michelle Obama
By Daniel Edwards entitled ‘Michelle Obama’s Makeover For America’
Sarah Palin - The Alaska Pageant - Intro
(via Waxy)
Update: (from Deron) Looks like the video has been removed from youtube. Andy Baio of Waxy.org saved (most of) the footage and has it here.
Sorry, Mike Dresser
While the bail-out may be neccesary that doesn’t mean it isn’t effectively putting money into “companies’ shareholders and boards” since many of the bankrupties are arguable predicated on the greed of the executives:
Henry Paulson, who in his current role as Treasury Secretary is pushing for a bank bailout, accounts for $82 million of the total. That was his pay for three years (2003 to 2005) as CEO of Goldman Sachs. DeBoskey included the pay of 57 different individuals, pulling the data that companies report on their top 5 officials to the Securities & Exchange Commission, to get to the $2.1 billion total.
Now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers, the smallest of the five companies, was tops in pay. It doled out $743 million in compensation for all its top officers from 2003 through 2007. Next was Goldman Sachs with $726.5 million, then AIG at $336 million, Fannie Mae at $207.2 million and Freddie Mac at $90 million.
Applying the same analysis to a broader universe of banks, financial firms, insurers, mortgage brokers and others who DeBoskey identifies as the companies likely to benefit from the proposed bailout and the total executive pay comes to $27 billion.
LaBruzzo considering plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have tubes tied
Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.
“We’re on a train headed to the future and there’s a bridge out, ” LaBruzzo said of what he suspects are dangerous demographic trends. “And nobody wants to talk about it.”
LaBruzzo said he worries that people receiving government aid such as food stamps and publicly subsidized housing are reproducing at a faster rate than more affluent, better-educated people who presumably pay more tax revenue to the government. He said he is gathering statistics now.
(via Beezies & Bankrolls )
spoiler alert
The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza notes that an ad proclaiming “McCain wins debate!” was already running on the Wall Street Journal’s Web site Friday morning. (A screen shot of the page can be seen here.) The reader who tipped Cillizza also saw a second ad that contained a quote from McCain campaign manager Rick Davis: “McCain won the debate — hands down.”
via Salon
Mom
I saw this image, and it set the alarm bells ringing. It was like a sudden view of the future.
Sarah Palin is “Mom” from Futurama.
Or maybe she represents the embodied combination of Palin and McCain. From Wikipedia:
“…behind the scenes Mom is a foul-mouthed, chain-smoking, deeply bitter, cruel and narcissistic gravel-voiced crow with an almost anorexic physique, who routinely abuses her terrified sons (see below) into submission, treating them like dogsbodies.”
Palin/McCain = MomCorp