This might be my favorite story of the election cycle
CC
who loved writing letters like this when she worked with the Kerry campaign.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Sigh.
Reason and Reverence has a nice post up about how Liddy Dole's has an ad about her opponent Kay Hagan EATING DINNER with a guy who works for an atheist PAC and even ACCEPTING CONTRIBUTIONS.
It's not even claimaing that Hagan herself is an athiest. Does merely fraternizing with atheists qualify for an attack ad these days?
While we're talking about hitting below the belt, here's a great commercial that does just that:
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It's not even claimaing that Hagan herself is an athiest. Does merely fraternizing with atheists qualify for an attack ad these days?
While we're talking about hitting below the belt, here's a great commercial that does just that:
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Monday, October 27, 2008
Imagine a chubby paralegal doing the happy dance
Chalicechick's least favorite member of the entire legislative branch has been convincted on all seven counts.
Boom shaka laka!
CC
hat tip to Kermit-the-Scott, who Imed me this not knowing how happy it would make me.
Boom shaka laka!
CC
hat tip to Kermit-the-Scott, who Imed me this not knowing how happy it would make me.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
A different presidential candidate dance-off video
http://view.break.com/592648 - Watch more free videos
I think this one's even better.
CC
Ps. Nate Silver is as skeptical of the Bradley effect as I am.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Way too many election-themed Yo Mama jokes
Yo mama so ugly, Sarah Palin has gone on record as "pro-life, but only because yo mama has already been born."
Yo mama so fat, every year there's a new study that shows French kids can find her on a map but American kids can't
Yo mama so ugly, McCain is offering her a $5000 refundable tax credit for plastic surgery.
Yo mama so fat, the only Supreme Court verdict she wants to overturn is HomeTown Buffet v. Yo Mama.
Yo mama's so ugly, Obama said "You can put lipstick on a pig and it would look a lot like yo mama on dollar margarita night."
Yo mama's so fat, she started her political career in Ayers' kitchen and never left.
Yo mama so slutty, even the McCain campaign won't pull out of her.
Yo moma so fat Russia can see her from *their* house.
CC
Hat tip to Boing Boing
Yo mama so fat, every year there's a new study that shows French kids can find her on a map but American kids can't
Yo mama so ugly, McCain is offering her a $5000 refundable tax credit for plastic surgery.
Yo mama so fat, the only Supreme Court verdict she wants to overturn is HomeTown Buffet v. Yo Mama.
Yo mama's so ugly, Obama said "You can put lipstick on a pig and it would look a lot like yo mama on dollar margarita night."
Yo mama's so fat, she started her political career in Ayers' kitchen and never left.
Yo mama so slutty, even the McCain campaign won't pull out of her.
Yo moma so fat Russia can see her from *their* house.
CC
Hat tip to Boing Boing
Monday, October 20, 2008
Links of the Awesome and a couple of question
-I am completely addicted to Failblog.org or at least the still photos on it because I never bother to watch the videos.
-An interesting column on Laws named after girls, though the column oddly omits mention of Megan's law, which I would think would be the most famous example.
-Things that make CC shake her head
-Ikea furniture mods
-A question for Moms. Is this as fucked up as I think it is? I mean, you know my feelings on parents who write things about their kids for publication when those things and the parent's willingness to have them published reveal the parent to be completely nuts. (Not even like Dooce-let-me-tell-you-about-my-husband's-prostate-problems-level crazy, more like Ann-Lamott-let-me-sound-creepily-oedipal-level crazy) So obviously I'm not a fan of the publication. But are the feelings themselves and this woman's weird little jihad to find the nine-year-old with a crush on her kid as weird as it sounds to me? I'm seriously thinking her kid is going to one day be one of those guys who can't have a normal relationship until his mom dies.
-Also, I was watching the 1982 BBC version of the Scarlet Pimpernel yesterday because it was apparently French Revolution movie day in my house. The executions in the moved are portrayed as huge public events, with hundreds of people coming to watch. My understanding is that this is historically accurate, and indeed, that public executions were entertainment for thousands of years, since at least the time of Christ.
I know every once in awhile somebody floats the idea of televising someone dying in the electric chair and the idea is soundly shouted down by society as a whole.
So why am I always hearing about how brutal modern society is and how violent video games are going to make us into crueler, nastier people?
Seems to me we're improving.
CC
-An interesting column on Laws named after girls, though the column oddly omits mention of Megan's law, which I would think would be the most famous example.
-Things that make CC shake her head
-Ikea furniture mods
-A question for Moms. Is this as fucked up as I think it is? I mean, you know my feelings on parents who write things about their kids for publication when those things and the parent's willingness to have them published reveal the parent to be completely nuts. (Not even like Dooce-let-me-tell-you-about-my-husband's-prostate-problems-level crazy, more like Ann-Lamott-let-me-sound-creepily-oedipal-level crazy) So obviously I'm not a fan of the publication. But are the feelings themselves and this woman's weird little jihad to find the nine-year-old with a crush on her kid as weird as it sounds to me? I'm seriously thinking her kid is going to one day be one of those guys who can't have a normal relationship until his mom dies.
-Also, I was watching the 1982 BBC version of the Scarlet Pimpernel yesterday because it was apparently French Revolution movie day in my house. The executions in the moved are portrayed as huge public events, with hundreds of people coming to watch. My understanding is that this is historically accurate, and indeed, that public executions were entertainment for thousands of years, since at least the time of Christ.
I know every once in awhile somebody floats the idea of televising someone dying in the electric chair and the idea is soundly shouted down by society as a whole.
So why am I always hearing about how brutal modern society is and how violent video games are going to make us into crueler, nastier people?
Seems to me we're improving.
CC
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Sign number 61,907 that John McCain is in serious trouble
From Fivethirtyeight.com:
So a canvasser goes to a woman's door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she's planning to vote for. She isn't sure, has to ask her husband who she's voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears him yell back, "We're votin' for the n***er!"
Woman turns back to canvasser, and says brightly and matter of factly: "We're voting for the n***er."
God bless America.
CC
So a canvasser goes to a woman's door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she's planning to vote for. She isn't sure, has to ask her husband who she's voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears him yell back, "We're votin' for the n***er!"
Woman turns back to canvasser, and says brightly and matter of factly: "We're voting for the n***er."
God bless America.
CC
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Obligatory
Everyone's favorite photo of John McCain.
And the proof that it's real
There. I've done my Obama-voter-blogger duty for the day.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Debate Liveblog tonight as well
TheCSO will probably be playing cards with the guys and even I have things I'd rather be doing than watching the debates, but at this point, it seems like the thing to do.
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ps. Anybody doing anything fun for election night in the DC area? That sounds like a joke and I am invited to the requisite number of big organization parties, but I'd like to do something smaller. I may liveblog then in a limited sense as I can only really sustain posting every other minute for a couple of hours.
CC
ps. Anybody doing anything fun for election night in the DC area? That sounds like a joke and I am invited to the requisite number of big organization parties, but I'd like to do something smaller. I may liveblog then in a limited sense as I can only really sustain posting every other minute for a couple of hours.
Attention MoveOn
THIS is how you do the "Anti-drug ad parody political ad" and make it FUNNY.
Nice Job.
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Nice Job.
CC
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Hillary Clinton not going to run for President again.
Doesn't expect to be Senate Majority leader, won't be on the Supreme Court.
Sigh.
I'm assuming that now that Obama is beating McCain by like 15 percent among white women, I can say that I think this is a shame without somebody calling me a harridan or anything.
CC
Sigh.
I'm assuming that now that Obama is beating McCain by like 15 percent among white women, I can say that I think this is a shame without somebody calling me a harridan or anything.
CC
The time CC met John McCain
The summer between college and grad school, I worked at the Department of Commerce. One day I was just coming to work and McCain and an aide were leaving the building.
"Excuse me?" I said. "Senator McCain?"
"Yes?" he said, turning around.
"You're my friend Rob's hero." His face broke into a wide smile. He stepped forward and pumped my hand. "He named his van 'the Straight Talk Express annex," I gushed.
McCain's laugh was deep and genuine.
"That's great to hear." He said. "Tell Rob I said hello. I'd write him a note, but I don't have any paper on me."
Indeed, I didn't either and neither did the aide. So a verbal "hello" was going to have to do.
Senator McCain and I said goodbye.
It's hard to believe that the gracious dude who shook my hand eight years ago has
turned into this guy.
For the record, Rob's an Obama supporter too now.
CC
"Excuse me?" I said. "Senator McCain?"
"Yes?" he said, turning around.
"You're my friend Rob's hero." His face broke into a wide smile. He stepped forward and pumped my hand. "He named his van 'the Straight Talk Express annex," I gushed.
McCain's laugh was deep and genuine.
"That's great to hear." He said. "Tell Rob I said hello. I'd write him a note, but I don't have any paper on me."
Indeed, I didn't either and neither did the aide. So a verbal "hello" was going to have to do.
Senator McCain and I said goodbye.
It's hard to believe that the gracious dude who shook my hand eight years ago has
turned into this guy.
For the record, Rob's an Obama supporter too now.
CC
Monday, October 13, 2008
CC's latest bizarre dream
I wake up and I realize I’m late for work. I toss on some clothes and head for the door. When I open my backdoor to the outside, I see with horror that the world is covered in cockroaches. Like every six inches of space in front of me has a cockroach. I turn around to go back inside the house and see that suddenly my house is full of cockroaches, too. So I freak out and I start to run through my neighborhood, not stepping on cockroaches, but trying to get away from them. I run up the street, and down another couple of blocks and soon I’m standing in front of an ocean. There are still cockroaches everywhere and I’m still really scared and icked out.
I jump into the ocean and start to swim under the water. No cockroaches under the water, just a feeling of deep calm. Breathing is apparently not an issue. I swim down deeper and deeper. An Octopus comes up to me. I get the sense that I know this octopus and he and I are good friends. He shows me a garden full of beautiful oysters. I’m not sure what constitutes a beautiful oyster, mind you, but I knew in the dream that they were.
The octopus and I say goodbye but it’s a “catch ya later” sort of goodbye that suggests we will see one another soon. I swim on to an underwater church that I hadn’t been consciously aware of. The church building is rectangular outside but inside it’s a perfect circle and there’s a pedestal in the center with a large clock. And I know it is my job to take care of the clock. I go to the clock and start polishing it as if that was what I had intended to do all along. A monkey hops up to me and starts chattering to me and I talk to him as I’m working. I look around the room as I’m working and I see that there’s a tiger and a lion there too and I get the sense that they also will hang out with me and keep me company.
So I get back to work on the clock.
And then I wake up.
I jump into the ocean and start to swim under the water. No cockroaches under the water, just a feeling of deep calm. Breathing is apparently not an issue. I swim down deeper and deeper. An Octopus comes up to me. I get the sense that I know this octopus and he and I are good friends. He shows me a garden full of beautiful oysters. I’m not sure what constitutes a beautiful oyster, mind you, but I knew in the dream that they were.
The octopus and I say goodbye but it’s a “catch ya later” sort of goodbye that suggests we will see one another soon. I swim on to an underwater church that I hadn’t been consciously aware of. The church building is rectangular outside but inside it’s a perfect circle and there’s a pedestal in the center with a large clock. And I know it is my job to take care of the clock. I go to the clock and start polishing it as if that was what I had intended to do all along. A monkey hops up to me and starts chattering to me and I talk to him as I’m working. I look around the room as I’m working and I see that there’s a tiger and a lion there too and I get the sense that they also will hang out with me and keep me company.
So I get back to work on the clock.
And then I wake up.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Turns out, Oliver had indeed heard of "Fannie Mae" and "Freddie Mac"
During my debate liveblog, I wrote:
9:12 Oliver, an african-american guy, has a question. I find it weird that "most of the people" he knows have had "a difficult time" in this economic crisis. Didn't the crisis start like two weeks ago?
9:13 McCain thinks you might not have heard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Yep, he's going for the dumb guy vote. Either that or he's talking to Oliver. Probably not the time to be talking down to black people, Senator.
Turns out that Oliver Clark, the aforementioned Oliver, is a little pissed at McCain's response.
He wrote on his Facebook page:
How did I feel about Sen. McCain stating “You probably never heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac before this.”
Well Senator, I actually did. I like to think of myself as a fairly intelligent person. I have a bachelor degree in Political Science from Tennessee State, so I try to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I have a Master degree in Legal Studies from Southern Illinois University, a few years in law school, and I am currently pursuing a Master in Public Administration from the University of Memphis. In defense of the Senator from Arizona I would say he is an older guy, and may have made an underestimation of my age. Honest mistake. However, it could be because I am a young African-American male. Whatever the case may be it was somewhat condescending regardless of my age to make an assumption regarding whether I was knowledgeable about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
In all fairness, I am still not sure that McCain was specifically referring to Oliver. He might well have been saying that most Americans haven't heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, which still sounds snotty and wrong.
But he certainly answered in the sort of overly-sweet tone of voice that lots of people use when talking to, well, old people like McCain.
CC
Hat tip to Wonkette
9:12 Oliver, an african-american guy, has a question. I find it weird that "most of the people" he knows have had "a difficult time" in this economic crisis. Didn't the crisis start like two weeks ago?
9:13 McCain thinks you might not have heard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Yep, he's going for the dumb guy vote. Either that or he's talking to Oliver. Probably not the time to be talking down to black people, Senator.
Turns out that Oliver Clark, the aforementioned Oliver, is a little pissed at McCain's response.
He wrote on his Facebook page:
How did I feel about Sen. McCain stating “You probably never heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac before this.”
Well Senator, I actually did. I like to think of myself as a fairly intelligent person. I have a bachelor degree in Political Science from Tennessee State, so I try to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I have a Master degree in Legal Studies from Southern Illinois University, a few years in law school, and I am currently pursuing a Master in Public Administration from the University of Memphis. In defense of the Senator from Arizona I would say he is an older guy, and may have made an underestimation of my age. Honest mistake. However, it could be because I am a young African-American male. Whatever the case may be it was somewhat condescending regardless of my age to make an assumption regarding whether I was knowledgeable about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
In all fairness, I am still not sure that McCain was specifically referring to Oliver. He might well have been saying that most Americans haven't heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, which still sounds snotty and wrong.
But he certainly answered in the sort of overly-sweet tone of voice that lots of people use when talking to, well, old people like McCain.
CC
Hat tip to Wonkette
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