Sunday Funnies will never be the same since I read "The Family Circus: Why Jeffy is 'Bag" at my favorite guilty blog pleasure, Hot Chicks with Douchebags. Generally speaking, author DB1 concentrates on couples who obviously met at the gym, but in this post he turns philosophe with great aplomb.
Mid-day open thread below. What else is good on the blogs today?
Crowd at Santorum Rally Horrified When Two Men Kiss
Fox's Cashin' In Panel Attacks Food Stamp Recipients
Liz Cheney vs Lawrence O'Donnell: Debating torture on GMA
Stephen Colbert re-writes the Pledge of Allegiance for the ConfederacyStephen Colbert re-writes the Pledge of Allegiance for the Confederacy |
Church Member Defends NC Pastor: LGBT People 'Worthy of Death' |
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Colin Powell Takes Hannity to Task for His Obsession with Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright |
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John Fugelsang: Only in America Can You Be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-Torture... and Still Call Yourself Pro-Life |
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Arizona Congressional Candidate 'Pulls a Coffman' |
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CNN Host Probes Tony Perkins: 'Why Do Homosexuals Bother You So Much?' |
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Bill Maher Knocks Liberty University: It Cheapens My Degree From a Real School |
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Compassionate Conservatism: Romney Meets Medical Marijuana Patient |
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Stockman: Romney Can't Say He Learned How to Create Jobs in the Leveraged Buyout Business |
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Krugman: Romney's Business Career is Fair Game |
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Steve Rattner Says Romney Was Not A Job Creator |
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President Obama Asks to See Betty White's Long Form Birth Certificate |
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SNL: Limbaugh Announces New Sponsors |
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'Family Guy' Does the Tea Party |
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Crowd at Santorum Rally Horrified When Two Men Kiss |
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Bill Maher Knocks Liberty University: It Cheapens My Degree From a Real School |
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Hot Chicks with Douchebags is the greatest web site on earth! lol. I'm glad I am not the only one with the same guilty pleasure! :)
Those damned nuke-loving Iranians landed a rubber boat from one of their submarines on Malibu Beach last night, snuck across PCH, and set fire to California again, according to the CIA. Looks like we're in for it now, 'WWIII by Christmas' was the chant of the Christian Coalition picketing the White House this morning, urging Bush and Cheney to 'Listen to 'god'', and nuke Iran.
Preacher Boob @ 2:
HEY! Who let Sean Haiinty in here?
Two of the first handful of sites I go to every AM are Hot Chicks with Douchebags and C&L. One lets you see what todays Republicans are up to, the other offers a glimpse of tomorrows Republicans. Standing next to huge breasted women.
HCwDB links to Crooks and Liars too.
Yeah BIFF, I doubt Glenn Greenwald has blogroll bling at a more lively website. DB1 is definitely one of us.... - BG
Family Circus is puke making. I shudder at the thought that I used to look at the thing in the Sunday paper. Now, of course I see the whiteness of it, the bigotry and so-called "christian" morality. Sucks big time.
I hate "family circus". Inane doesn't even begin to describe it.
http://static.grupthink.com/answer/d/ddc9f55d80a51e2db8d40c7a6a6fea65
The Family Circus began to make me cringe when i reached the age of 9. I still read it until i was 13 in awe of its repetition and lack of originality just waiting for it to be dropped. Instead, one after the next the Baltimore Sun dropped good strip after good strip over the years, shrank the strips down so you can't read them without a magnifying glass and i am betting to this day Family Circus still runs there. I have not purchased a Sun in over ten years now.
Family Circus never ever, not even once, insulted or upset the white religous right leaning members of our society. That alone should tell you it is worthless tripe.
Anal Roberts, son of Oral, and President of Oral Roberts University, resigned Friday amidst allegations that he and his wife engaged in numerous sexual and financial perversions.
'We always did what we thought 'god' wanted us to do', they proclaimed, as they sped away in their custom Lamborghini SUV on their way to the airport and the Airbus 380 they chartered to whisk them to the Costa Brava for a 'few months of relaxation'.
They were accompanied by their fourteen-year-old 'houseboy', rumored to be the paramour of Mrs. Roberts, though she claimed she 'never had sex with anyone other than in my husband's presence', which raised some 'menage' questions among the cognoscenti.
Ah, these 'christian' leaders, what a scam they have, which raises the question, 'Where in hell do they find all the gullible sheep to follow and support them'?
Here's an update on the "Bush Family Circus": SCOTT McCLELLAN’S MOST SHOCKING CONFESSION: ‘I ONCE TOLD THE TRUTH!’
"Mommy; why do you keep openin' your mouth without saying anything?
Why not; Bush does it all the time!
I'm just trying to get you to swallow something.
Faux Noise
Preacher Boob @ 8:
Link? Inquiring minds want to know.
There' a damned good reason the Pentagon left the 20,000 brain-damaged Iraq and Afghanistan vets off the count of war-wounded, and it wasn't to try to fudge the numbers.
The standard internal Pentagon tests, which they use to check-up on their own staffs, up to the top Generals and Joint Chiefs, register moderately brain-damaged folks as normal, since that is the norm for the Pentagon.
So don't blame the Pentagon, speak softly when you talk to them, don't make any sudden or unexpected moves around them, and be gentle with them, try to have a little compassion and understanding, for 'They know not what they do'.
Jo @ 12:
I don't have a link at hand, but you could try calling the Girona airport, they should be landing about now.
Dr. Matt @ 1:
Hey Doc,
We share that guilty pleasure, but the greatest? http://bitsandpieces1.blogspot.com/
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/ and
http://www.kilian-nakamura.com/blog-english/
are all good time wasters
The Comics Curmudgeon is a good place to consider too
http://www.joshreads.com
Preacher Boob @ 14:
LOL!!!
Family Circus is bad, but B.C. is the worst.
It would be a little bit nice if the 9/11 conspiracy theory bullshit would stop here. For all the flaps about racism, nobody even seems to get just how racist it is to presume brown-skinned people who worship Allah are too stupid to attack a superpower. Hell, the government's fucked up everything after this, why wouldn't it have done it before it, too? It gets a little insulting to hear people dismissing Arab intelligence on the one hand, and then on the other to hear people whine'n'moan about people like Dog and Imus.
Also, I would appreciate it, if people would keep current talk of "democracy" quiet. To be a pedant, the US system was never democratic and the Founders loathed the concept. From the beginning, the US was a racist oligarchy, and it has remained so since. The US government had aristocrats long before capitalism emerged with the Industrial Revolution. They happened to be called "Plantation Owners" and they would be insulted at the fact this site ignores them. Inclusiveness, which the USA has begun the grinding process towards, is not equal to democracy.
One more thing, the USA emerged from a guerilla conflict against a budding superpower, and the only wars against guerillas the USA won were the Filipino Insurrection, and the Civil War. They. lost. every. other. one. It is ironic, that the USA got the bright idea for waterboarding from the Filipino Insurrection, when it convinced the government of, I believe it was Theodore Roosevelt, to force the leader of the Filipinos, Aguinaldo, to surrender. The United States has never fought a foe its technological equal on full power, and had it ever done so, the result would have been disastrous. Just imagine what would have happened with Mexican troops with up-to-date weapons at Veracruz and Chapultepec, as Yankee troops were heavily outnumbered.....
For those of you who have been wondering, can it be a 'coalition' if it only has one member?
The answer is yes, since the one member is a paranoid schizophrenic.
Oh, and another thing, the USA wasn't the first of the two Cold War powers to abolish slavery. Ironically, it was Tsarist Russia under Alexander II who beat us to the punch by four years. Tsarist Russia. To have them beat us at that is like having the women's rights records won by Afghanistan under the Taliban. Another sweet little irony is that the Tsars of Russia beat the USA to outlawing the death penalty, and then Uncle Joe re-instated it.
However, Stalin's Communism bore no resemblance to 19th Century Liberalism, many of whom would have been horrified every bit as much at the much larger slaughter of Stalin's Moscow than Hitler's Berlin, as the progressives of today are. I certainly despise Stalin more than Hitler, because they were both equally evil, yet we chose a Devil's bargain.
Preacher Boob @ 20:
I believe you mean Multiple. Schizophrenia has nothing to do with Multiplicity. You fail.
For those of you who were concerned about Tucker, relax.
He's snared a 'weatherperson' gig on a local Fresno cable station.
Here is a link:
Dry as shit humor & Preacher Boob.
Hey buddy, I knew he was being dry.... just insult the right group of people. Schizophrenics shouldn't be tarred with Dubya. (Multiples shouldn't either, but since he had to make the joke....)
The DNC-GOP Congress has betrayed their oath, American citizens, and the Constitution. Let's not wait until the elections. Let's move to enforce the law against those who fail to defend this Constitution against the President and Vice President: Members of Congress, judicial officers, and staff counsel working in the US Government.
Noticing an attitude of, "Nothing can be done about holding the US leadership to account until the elections"-attitude. I would hope others would challenge this. The excuse of "wait until the next election" have us the DNC's inaction on the 2006 voter mandate. We don't have to wait for elections: We can lawfully target for prosecution Members of Congress and the President/VP for oath of office violations. Congress refuses to take action on impeachment or prosecutions of this President. Then Members of Congress can be targeted for prosecution.
Some options outside elections:
General_Rennenkampf @ 25:
Actually i was responding to Jo @ 12. :)
Here it comes again!
Former prosecutor: DOJ breaking rules for cell phone spying
David Edwards and Nick Juliano
Published: Friday November 23, 2007
'Unusual' cell phone tracking a 'slippery slope' to Fourth Amendment desecration
A newly revealed program that lets the government turn individuals' cell phones into pocket-sized tracking devices seems to violate Justice Department policies and is a "slippery slope" to further degrading Americans' Fourth Amendment privacy guarantees, a former government official said Friday.
"I think it's a slippery slope," former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin, a CNN legal analyst, said on American Morning Friday. "You should be following policy and that policy protects US citizens by the Fourth Amendment and our persons, our places, our homes."
The Washington Post reported Friday that the Justice Department has relied on ambiguous policies to track an unknown number of suspected drug traffickers and other criminals using their cell phones without first obtaining a warrant. Cell phone locations can be tracked either through GPS chips installed in the devices or by triangulating the signals they transmit to cell towers throughout the country.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Former_prosecutor_DOJ_breaking_rules_for_1...
They're not only tracking you... they are listening in too...
FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool
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update The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.
The technique is called a "roving bug," and was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him.
Snip!
The U.S. Commerce Department's security office warns that "a cellular telephone can be turned into a microphone and transmitter for the purpose of listening to conversations in the vicinity of the phone." An article in the Financial Times last year said mobile providers can "remotely install a piece of software on to any handset, without the owner's knowledge, which will activate the microphone even when its owner is not making a call."
Nextel and Samsung handsets and the Motorola Razr are especially vulnerable to software downloads that activate their microphones, said James Atkinson, a counter-surveillance consultant who has worked closely with government agencies. "They can be remotely accessed and made to transmit room audio all the time," he said. "You can do that without having physical access to the phone."
Because modern handsets are miniature computers, downloaded software could modify the usual interface that always displays when a call is in progress. The spyware could then place a call to the FBI and activate the microphone--all without the owner knowing it happened. (The FBI declined to comment on Friday.)
"If a phone has in fact been modified to act as a bug, the only way to counteract that is to either have a bugsweeper follow you around 24-7, which is not practical, or to peel the battery off the phone," Atkinson said. Security-conscious corporate executives routinely remove the batteries from their cell phones, he added.
http://www.news.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html
This is what is behind the push for telecom immunity!
those evil illegals
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21950265/
This man should have immediate entry into this country. But I'm sure the Malkintes would think differently.
Oh, but Mukasey will save us from the nebil terrorists! Remember, we have always been stay the course!
If you question my statements you are a traitor to America!
Guess which one is sarcastic, come on, guess
None of em.General_Rennenkampf @ 22:
You must be Pentagon General, and you have no idea what I mean, since it is obviously beyond your comprehension. Bush has hallucinations, including auditory, difficulty with speech and accepting reality, delusions including megalomania, and believes both that he communicates with 'god', and is 'god', which could be interpreted as talking to himself. His paranoia could be considered justified, since the virulent opposition
he senses is the result of his own psychotic actions, but it's extreme nature qualifies it as unrealistic. Since his persona is a mess of multiple, unrelated pieces, he could be considered as a non-functional, non-coherent 'coalition' of unrelated parts, which could also be considered as an oxymoron, which is, perhaps, the best one-word definition of Bush.
And, perhaps, yourself, 'general'.
And here I take the egg on my face and make an omelet with it.
BTW, I don't think a Right-Wing troll would name himself after the Russian general that slaughtered an entire Russian army on the Kaiser's Military leftovers in August 1914, nor know nor care who that person is. After all, World War I didn't begin until 1917 according to the wingnuts, assuming they realize there was a World War I.
/snark off.
Speaking of the illusive "coalition" in Iraq didn't Bush just lose another team player in Australia?....
Say good-bye to Howard....
Hello new Prime Minister Rudd....
Yay, another Cold War relic gone from office! Now on to Jan. 2009!
ticktock @ 34:
And Poland is picking up it's marble and going home.
So who's left in this coalition anyway?....
Latvia?....
xoites defends Constitution @ 7:
xoites, hatin' on Family Circus is pre-historic. There are cave paintins in Belgium, carbon-dated to approximately 90,000 BC satirizin' the "Not Me" arc.
From Yahoo news: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/071124/world/international_pakistan_dc
Interesting. Saudi Arabia is very interested in Pakistan, too. Watch Pakistan: something big is going to go down, and the US isn't going to be on the sidelines (mark my words).
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to return home on Sunday to a country under emergency rule imposed by President Pervez Musharraf, the general who deposed him eight years ago.
Sharif is due to land in his home town, the eastern city of Lahore, sometime between 3 and 4 p.m. (1000-1100 GMT) on a flight laid on by Saudi King Abdullah from the holy city of Medina.
The king has also provided Sharif, who is traveling with his wife, Kulsoom, and politician brother and fellow exile Shahbaz Sharif, with an armor-plated Mercedes, aides said.
Does anyone recall reading a site, out of Germany I believe, that had great fun with Family Circus in the following way: They would post a strip each week and invite readers to submit alternate captions. The submissions were over-the-top raunchy exercises, and any single set of replies was funnier than a decade's worth of the Family Circus inane drivel. I believe that Keane, the writer of the strip objected, threatened to sue, asked them nicely to desist, and some combination of these actions made the website pull the plug on the Family Circus bit. I can't seem to recall the name of the website - just wondering if anyone else ran across it.
Oxyrhopus @ 40:
It's one of those "comics" I hardly ever see, but when I do I MUST read it to see just how f--ing LAME it is. Now I know I'm not alone. I have never found it amusing-- not once.
I always wanted to plow that mama in the Family Circus. Yessir, just bend her over and driver her to Newark. Bet that'd give ol' Ghost Grampa a show.
Steve @ 42:
Ouch! Think of the paper cuts!
HOLY FUGGIN CRAP! I actually know Jeff "Jeffrey" Keane! I gotta send him this link!
Hot chicks with douchebags is the greatest website on the internet. I can sit on that for hours.
Image Is Everything: How To Lose A War AND The Hearts And Minds Of A People
Willie @ 18:
You got that right. B.C. is some serious wingnutery. How appropriate it's set in cave dwelling time.
Politics aside however, Garfield gets my vote as is the worst most insipid and annoying cartoon ever.
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