August 27, 2008 11:00 AM
Mike's Blog Roundup
Yikes! - In Memoriam, Del Martin
Driftglass - In order to survive and grow, our nation's Racism Virus has mutated.
Figleaf (not work safe) - Why is it whenever a woman achieves anything, it is perceived as having an effect only on women? [from a post by Twisty, goddess]
Comrade Kevin: The briefest (yet all too true) thought on the convention thus far...
The Black Snob: winner of the "most pictures of Michelle Obama in one post" contest!
Guest posted by Blue Gal, who in spite of yesterday's post did save a Cheeto for Joe Scarborough...
Horse hockey!!!
How do they get those big ol' horses on such tiny iceskates?
And what are they hitting back and forth with their sticks?
I found a cheeto once that, on first glance, I thought looked exactly like joe scarborough. But on closer inspection, I realized it looked more like a cow flop. Perhaps my confusion was understandable considering...
The repugs think they're being hip by essentially repeating a joke ad nauseum from the Simpson's 20 years ago.
Remember when even "serious" commentary on the Iraq war had Groundskeeper Willy's, "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys" innit?
Just heard on tv that FEMA is getting supplies ready for wherever the hurricane hits. Chertof and whoever replaced Brownie are fired up and ready to go. They are so eager and determined to get this right this time that the order for McCain's birthday cake has been canceled.
That's funny, I'm a surrender monkey in the FU-GWB Ecosystem.
pissed off patricia @ 5:
They were afraid all the candles on his cake would set off the water works?
We need to stop the MSM from protecting McCain, the flip-flopper who would say anything to get elected.
There is a real difference between candidate McCain and the McCain of the past, and nothing emphasizes it more than this interview with Time magazine:
There's a theme that recurs in your books and your speeches, both about putting country first but also about honor. I wonder if you could define honor for us? Read it in my books.
I've read your books. No, I'm not going to define it.
But honor in politics? I defined it in five books. Read my books.
[Your] campaign today is more disciplined, more traditional, more aggressive. From your point of view, why the change?
I will do as much as we possibly can do to provide as much access to the press as possible.
But beyond the press, sir, just in terms of ...
I think we're running a fine campaign, and this is where we are.
Do you miss the old way of doing it?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Really? Come on, Senator.
I'll provide as much access as possible ...
In 2000, after the primaries, you went back to South Carolina to talk about what you felt was a mistake you had made on the Confederate flag. Is there anything so far about this campaign that you wish you could take back or you might revisit when it's over?
[Does not answer.]
Do I know you? [Says with a laugh.]
[Long pause.] I'm very happy with the way our campaign has been conducted, and I am very pleased and humbled to have the nomination of the Republican Party.
You do acknowledge there was a change in the campaign, in the way you had run the campaign?
[Shakes his head.]
You don't acknowledge that? O.K., when your aides came to you and you decided, having been attacked by Barack Obama, to run some of those ads, was there a debate?
The campaign responded as planned.
It's sad, really. At one point John McCain was his own man. And now's he just another politician, a puppet of the kill-or-be-kill political operatives he has hired to win this race for him, reduced to shaking his head silently at questions he once would have had the nerve to answer forthrightly.
McCain is like an old rag doll that has lost all its stuffing over the years. It has to be held up and positioned in order to look the way it used to, but otherwise, it's kinda useless.
Here is a Great New TV AD addressed to the GOP
called Thanks for the Memories
I'm hoping we get to use it.
Should we all send Joe a bag of Cheetos? I'll do it.
Have you been watching any media coverage of the convention? Has your head exploded yet? Read more. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008/08/if-it-bleeds-it-leads.html
Off digg: Apparently McSame doesn't think Americans would be prepared to take immigrant jobs like picking lettuce, even for $50 an hour.
Of course, this is Senator McCain speaking, the one that had a sensible position on illegal immigration (not taking our jobs).
But $50 an hour? That's seriously out-of-touch. Try 1/10 of that, John.
cobsjo @ 8:
And now he's an Owned Man
☻Bangkok Bob ☻ @ 13:
I don't feel sorry for him. He made the decision to run and he knows what campaigns are all about. He should be retired and enjoying his life rather than doing this shit and most likely shortening his life. The stress and strain of all this has to be hard as hell on a man his age and in the shape he's in.
Putin accuses U.S. of orchestrating Georgian war
From CNN's Matthew Chance
(CNN) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the conflict in Georgia to benefit one of its presidential election candidates.
In an exclusive interview with CNN's Matthew Chance in the Black Sea city of Sochi Thursday, Putin said the U.S. had encouraged Georgia to attack the autonomous region of South Ossetia.
Putin told CNN his defense officials had told him it was done to benefit a presidential candidate -- Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama are competing to succeed George W. Bush
Am I the only one who has 'Michelle' by The Beatles in my head after reading The Black Snob's blog?
Michelle, my belle...
☻Bangkok Bob ☻ @ 10:
Excellent ad. We'll take it from here is absolutely what I want to see. Go Dems Go!!!!
I don't think that we'll see photographs of the Obama daughters falling-down drunk in a saloon somewhere in South America ala Jenna. Those are some dignified, well behaved kids.
TX @ 15:
I can't say this surprises me and let me guess who that was orchestrated to help... McSame??
pissed off patricia @ 11:
. . . and sign the cards with our D&D names.
Blue Gal, your bathtub Cheetos pic is the first thing I saw this morning. A big thank you!!!
TX @ 15:
Since one of McCain's people was lobbying for Georgia, I guess we can rule out McCain, right?
Seriously, we have a new tropical storm, Hanna. She seems to have her eye on the eastern seaboard and Fla. in particular. I have a not so good feeling about this one.
TX @ 15:
Actually, there have been some stories floating around that suspect that Cheney was behind this. http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/15/russia_georgia_conflict_fueled_by_...
Democracy Now! August 15, 2008
MICHAEL KLARE [the defense analyst for The Nation and the director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst]
: Yes. It’s my impression that neoconservative circles in Washington have been egging Saakashvili on, have been telling him that he had much stronger support in Washington for this move, for this attack he made last week into South Ossetia, than he really did. I think, like so much else that’s happened in the past few years, there are really two foreign policy voices in Washington: the State Department voice of Condoleezza Rice and the Vice President’s Office and other elements around Dick Cheney that have a completely different foreign policy. And I wouldn’t be surprised if people around John McCain and Vice President Cheney weren’t telling Saakashvili that if he invaded South Ossetia, he would get much more support from the United States than in fact he did, and that this is what motivated him to provoke this clash, thinking that the US would come to his rescue. I have absolutely no evidence for that, but this kind of report that you just cited leads me to think that he went into South Ossetia last week with some sort of promises that never materialized.
I have a collection of about two dozen eerily phallic cheetos that I've discovered over time and saved in a ziplock baggie.
Should I forward to Scarborough?
Too much information?
bateman @ 24:
Um, yes. Too much info. But the bigger question is, what were your plans for them up until now?
pissed off patricia @ 25:
Hanging on the fridge as a conversation piece for guests or something.
Yes, I have a juvenile sense of humor.
ysbaddaden @ 4:
I'm sure the French do. Just like they remember how more of them died for their country in WWI alone than all Americans in all US wars combined.
It's like.. a tad offensive.
Alexdem @ 17:
Not anymore... :)
The Driftglass piece is gold, baby. Gold.
CMINCA @ 23:
Bay of Prigs.
Meanwhile the McCain campaign announces that THERE ARE NO UNINSURED AMERICANS....
because we all have access to emergency rooms. WTF ?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/28/mccain-adviser-there-are_n_1220...
Max H @ 31:
Y'see, we don't need to fix the problem. We simply need to fix the definitions.
Max H @ 31:
Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain's health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.)
I hear McCain will promise a cheeto in every pot - well, at least for the wingnuts' 101st Chairborne.
John J @ 33:
Its a good thing the US no longer has any uninsured and that the news came out just in time to contradict the WHO study: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080828/wl_nm/who_dc_4
GENEVA (Reuters) - Major inequalities in health and life expectancy persist worldwide, according to an independent World Health Organization commission which on Thursday called for all countries to offer universal health care.
. . . The Commission on Social Determinants of Health, composed of 19 independent experts, handed over its three-year study to the World Health Organization, a United Nations agency.
"Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale," it declared. . . .
bateman @ 24:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEhAXQ5QQzs
I prefer Camembert cheese on stone-ground wheat thins washed down with a nice Chardonnay.
fiver @ 28:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMLPk0q-Eo8&feature=related
Thanks for the link, Blue Gal. You're kind beyond words. As ever.
figleaf
Hey, BG ... thanks for the link!
BAC
Comments are closed on this entry