Mike's Blog Round Up
Thanks to all for the positive response to my first-ever round-up here on Crooks and Liars yesterday! Not one person sent me an email calling me a "m**************r" without appending a "j/k" to it! Once again your humble blog round-up narrator is me, Alex that is, from Martini Revolution. Sunday is typically a slow day in the blogosphere, but I think we have enough material to keep the round-up going. If you have prospective material for tomorrow's round-up, I can be reached at alexde AT gmail DOT com.
The Washington Post ran an article about melancholy Bushinistas leaving the White House. Are the departed walking automatons of felony? Or simply trying to avoid depression? Meanwhile, a conservative blogger can't see how this is any different from departures during the Clinton administration, so I provide a couple of hints.
Rob deconstructs Hitchens most recent attempt at reclaiming humanity, along with Hitch's Orwell fetish. While initially sympathetic, he finds a predictable self-serving slant and lack of honesty in Hitch's endeavor. Rob writes great stuff, check this out.
It seems Barrack Obama didn't wear a flag lapel pin the other day, leading at least one blogger to post a gallery of scumbag faux-patriots sporting the required enamel flag in lieu of possession of any personal integrity. Of course, none of them were falsely accused of attending a radical madrasah and being indoctrinated into radical Islam -- just convicted of toe-tapping his way into a vice squad bathroom bust.
Meanwhile, strangely familiar parallels emerge in Iraq between the construction of our new embassy and the rest of the TARFU-afflicted neocon misadventure over there. Despite recent proclamations of victory from wingnuttia, people continue to die in numerous incidents daily over there.
If you're anemic and in need of your daily dose of irony, Mike took a couple minutes off from playing music to email a link to this gem about Larry Craig's "super tuber" from wonkette. Although this looks like something Sara Silverman might have made up, it seems to be real.
BONUS! Good lord: an atheist rapper.
"Sunday is typically a slow day in the blogosphere, but I think we have enough material to keep the round-up going"
Um..Alex...it's Monday
I bet construction in Dubai is going smoothly...
Freudian is the only way to describe Craigs "recipe".
The above mentioned WaPo article is really a scream. But better is the online comments to it. The crush of scorn heaped on both the writer and subject is amazing.
The building of the US embassy in Baghdad somehow makes me recall the fiasco of the embassy in Moscow during the cold war that was built with local contractors. It had to be torn down and rebuilt with all US contractors and US materials because of all the KGB bugs built in. Any takers to a bet that the Baghdad embassy has not got got a few explosives built into the foundations? Any reason to trust First Kuwaiti beyond throwing range? Sheesh.
Um..Alex…it’s Monday
True, but the roundup is posted at 8:00 am and finished the evening before.
Alex @ 6:
Oh, ok...sorry....my bad
Great Roundup...thanks for finding all the gems...( I don't care when you post it...anytime , anyplace- ALL good)
I almost always prepare my posts the day before I post them, so I understand. :-P
greepers are swiftboating family who gace weekly Democratic address
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/8/105939/723
Clytemnestra @ 10:
someday I will either learn my keyoard OR get better fracking lights in this room
Freepers are swiftboaring family who gave the weekley Democratic address
Roy Zimmerman has a new one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Fm7wswv98
Weaseldog @ 2:
Of course. Where do you think Cheney is going on 1/21/09? It's no mystery why Haliburton moved their HQ there.
Clytemnestra @ 10:
Wow... just when I thought these fuckers couldn't get any lower. Pond scum has more humanity than these assholes.
Blue Buddha @ 13:
State of the art hospitals, lot's of sun and no extradition treaty.
"..how he treats his beard" LOL!
The athiest rapper is hilarious (but I can't stand rap). Thanks for the laughs.
Ron @ 15:
...virtually no taxes, seven star hotels, construction on a shopping mall that will rival both the Mall of America and the Edmonton Mall, a new theme park that will make Disney World look like a Shriner's carnival, construction on the world's tallest skyscraper, and plans to build another one that will dwarf that skyscraper... what's not to like?
Blue Buddha @ 17:
I forgot, slave labor.
Wow, The Atheist Rapper is Great! It's good to see RAP finally starting to talk about reality like this.
I Just ordered a copy of the Album from his site. Hope he gets more props for his work. I never liked RAP, but now it is something to hear with this young guy.
It's not that Obama "didn't wear a flag lapel pin the other day." He was asked recently why he stopped wearing the flag lapel pin SIX YEARS AGO.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he doesn't wear an American flag lapel pin because it has become a substitute for "true patriotism" since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Asked about it Wednesday in an interview with KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Illinois senator said he stopped wearing the pin shortly after the attacks and instead hoped to show his patriotism by explaining his ideas to citizens.
"The truth is that right after 9/11 I had a pin," Obama said. "Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security.
"I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest," he said in the interview. "Instead, I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testament to my patriotism."
It's Republican spin that Obama "recently" stopped wearing his pin. Everyone should quit falling for the GOP's attempt to manufacture controversy where none exists, as well as the Republican framing of these issues -- Republicans are patriotic, Democrats are not -- Republicans are "pro-military," Democrats are not. BULL. SHIT.
For instance, why is something Obama did six years ago only relevant now? and if it is, why aren't these "reporters" asking the Republican candidates the same question and giving their responses the same amount of coverage that Obama's rated?
I heard 'super tuber' was voted up as the recipe name only after 'glory hole' was for some reason nixed. Also? You have to tap your feet when you order it or the chef just gives you a potato.
The GOP Nader Moment
You'd think they would have learned with Ross Perot...
I'm just appalled that a Fox News broadcaster likened Obama's statement on the lapel pin ("I will not wear that pin.") with Bill Cliinton's "I did not have sex with that woman." The tenuous link? The word "that." (She said: "That's the first thing I thought about when I heard what Obama said." SHOCKER you right-wing neo nazi
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