Terrible towel- check.
Heath Miller jersey- check.
Beverages- check.
Cat fed- check.
Lily fed and walked and rocking her Steelers collar- check.
I’m ready. The only thing missing is the Steelers 4th quarter defense, which hopefully will show up tonight.
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Also, out of respect to TNC, I’m going to be rocking my ghetto name tonight- Jahn Coale.
I’m begging:
INGRAHAM: Would you agree to a debate with Al Gore on this issue?PALIN: Oh my goodness. You know, it depends on what the venue would be, what the forum. Because Laura, as you know, if it would be some kind of conventional, traditional debate with his friends setting it up or being the commentators I’ll get clobbered because, you know, they don’t want to listen to the facts.
So help me ALLAH, if Gore sighs once in this debate I will punch him in the neck and kick him in the junk. But wouldn’t you love to see that moron up there just winking and blushing and making shit up?
Tommy: Did you hear I finally graduated?
Richard Hayden: Yeah, and just a shade under a decade too, all right.
Tommy: You know a lot of people go to college for seven years.
Richard Hayden: I know, they’re called doctors.
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And as I am post this, MSNBC is reading Sarah Palin’s twitter feed. Shoot me.
No wonder they support Palin so much. Much like their goddess, they don’t know what the Bush doctrine is, either:
The Bush doctrine isn’t about the President unilaterally defending the country. The problem with the Bush doctrine is that it upended years of practice and established a policy of preventive war, which means that it is just kosher to invade anyone you perceive as a threat, so long as you can get five Weekly Standard interns together in the Office of Special Plans to agree a country was a threat and needed to be invaded because they might do something to us one day. Or Saddam looked at us funny.
No wonder these guys love Palin. It’s the blind leading the stupid.
And while we are at it, let me remind you all that Bill Kristol is still on the Washington Post payroll but they didn’t have the funds for Dan Froomkin.
I’m really not sure what it says about our current state of affairs that I’m moderately pleased and a little surprised that Tom Coburn and Rick Warren have now both spoken out against a law authorizing the execution of homosexuals in Uganda, but that is where we are, I suppose. I guess I should just be happy it was a twofer with Warren, as he denounced the law and invoked Burke.
I realize these aren’t the most important questions in the world, but I’m stuck in an airport listening to Christmas carols and I have to ask: what is the reason for the strange changes to the lyrics of Christmas carols? Why does Frank Sinatra sing “hang a shining star upon the highest bough” when earlier versions (e.g. Ella) sang “until then we’ll have to muddle through some how”? Was this one of those important cultural changes, like putting all the God stuff on the money, that brought the Commies to their knees?
And why is “and pretend that he is Parson Brown” sometimes changed to “and pretend that he’s a circus clown”?
Update. Okay, I see that the answer to the second question is that “Winter Wonderland” has two verses.
They’re just as nucking futs as the others:
Last night I read a post over at Volokh about how climate data was being faked. I sighed and moved on. Then, about an hour ago, I got an email from a conservative reader asking if the Volokh post undermined my faith in global warming. I told him it didn’t. Then, a few minutes later, I noticed Megan McArdle linking to the same post. Obviously this thing wasn’t going to go away quietly.
John Cornyn and Mitch McConnell, with their lifetime ratings with the ACU of 92 and 90, respectively, are about to get purged from the big tent party/ party of ideas:
DeMint, in an interview with the Christian Broadcast Network, also said that he is trying to recruit a new crop of GOP lawmakers to challenge the party establishment.“The problem in the Republican Party is that the leadership has gone to the left,” he said. “I need some new Republicans.”
DeMint’s comments come as party leaders such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) chairman John Cornyn (R-Texas), and RNC chairman Michael Steele have come under fire from several conservative bloggers and conservative grassroots activists.
The teabaggers have their marching orders from Rush, so heads must roll. Rush is apparently pissy that McConnell has not completely blown up the Senate to stop any Democratic bills.
Related, you have to watch this Colbert Report segment with Phyllis Schlafley’s insane son, the founder of our beloved “conservapedia.”
Editor and Publisher, around since 1884, is closing:
Yes, it’s true, my magazine, E&P, axed today, out of job. At office until end of year—and here, of course.
You would think that would be a brand that one of the new media sites would want to snap up ala Froomkin.
Meanwhile, the Politico is still on the Pulitzer board.
Photos are back! Apologies for the long delay. I was busy as hell, then sick, then sick and busy as hell, and yesterday I don’t even want to talk about.
fallsroad, The Machinery of Joy.
LT in Oregon, Lwater.
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The ACLU has a funding problem:
A longtime anonymous donor to the American Civil Liberties Union has withdrawn his annual gift of more than $20 million, punching a 25 percent hole in its annual operating budget and forcing cutbacks in operations.Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the A.C.L.U., acknowledged in a written statement that a “family” had told the organization in September that it could not make its annual gifts, at least for next year.
“This family, that has sought to protect its privacy by arranging its gifts anonymously, notified us last month that due to market conditions it will be unable to make its expected sizable donations of over $20 million,” Mr. Romero said.
Twenty million is a sizable hole in any nonprofit’s budget, so if you have been holding off on renewing your membership, now would be a good time to go give.
Also, as was noted in the comments the other day, if you do donate, you get to tell everyone you are an official “card carrying member of the ACLU,” which is always fun.
Bart Stupak and Sarah Palin get to take to the NY Times and the Washington Post to lie through their teeth, while those trying to correct the record are left struggling to get the word out on blogs and any old way they can.
Here is Rep. Lois Capps with a point by point evisceration of Stupak’s lies.
(via Amanda Marcotte)
This morning, Gore appeared on MSNBC, where Andrea Mitchell read from Sarah Palin’s Facebook page to ask the former vice president questions about climate change.
This Patrick Ruffini tweet made me laugh out loud:
The New Yorker:
O’Neill watched all this with anguish. Shortly before he was fired, he confronted Cheney about the Administration’s latest proposal to cut taxes by another six hundred and seventy-four billion dollars over ten years, pointing out that the country was “moving toward a fiscal crisis.” The Vice-President stopped him. “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter,” he said. “We won the midterms. This is our due.” In fact, Reagan didn’t prove anything of the kind. Early in his first term, Congress was forced to adopt emergency tax increases and spending cuts to restrain the ballooning budget shortfall. Despite this remedial action, it wasn’t until the early nineties, when George Bush Senior and Bill Clinton raised taxes, that the nation’s finances were put in proper order, opening the way to the longest economic expansion on record.
And because I am +4, I’m not even going to go into the role that Gramm, of Gramm/Rudman/Hollings, played in the repeal of Glass-Steagal and the meltdown of last year that has led the way in getting us to where we are now.
But yeah. Republicans are all fiscal conservatives now.
