You aren’t there yet, and it is clearly going to take some more time before you face facts, but there is a real simple reason why mean old McLame did not dispel all those rumors about Palin.
He knows they are true.
by John Cole| 53 Comments
This post is in: Election 2008, Republican Stupidity
You aren’t there yet, and it is clearly going to take some more time before you face facts, but there is a real simple reason why mean old McLame did not dispel all those rumors about Palin.
He knows they are true.
This post is in: Clown Shoes, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To
Yes, you, BTD:
The Cult will not because it can not. No such posts exist. I remind my dear readers and the Cult of two words that I used – “shoo-in.” Before most. Those who actually can read and actually read my posts know precisely what I wrote.
Start with a search at the Talk Left archives with the words Unity + Ticket. Work backwards.
This one is kind of fun:
Obama’s GE Margin Of Error: Nonexistent
I am sorry to continue to harp on the need for a Unity Ticket, but I feel it is important. I just looked at the latest McCain-Obama head to heads (forget the electoral college math problems for a moment) and here they are:
Rasmussen: Obama 44, McCain 46
Gallup: Obama 45, McCain 47
Newsweek: Obama 46, McCain 46
Forget for a moment that Clinton is beating McCain in these same polls, excuse me, is no one but me worried about needing a unified Democratic Party in November? I pray there are grownups in the Obama camp that will give him a reality check on this.
By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only
Speaking for the entire country, I am glad there are adults in the Obama camp and that they ignored every damned thing you had to say. We could spend all day doing this, but we all know what we would find. Waste of my time.
Although, I will add, this one is pretty awesome:
The dynamics of this race are now set in stone. No amount of Media and Mo and Kennedys can get Obama over the hump. He can not win women, Latinos, older voters and lower income non-African Americans. The Obama coalition is simply not enough. I discussed this problem for the past month.
The bottom line is nothing has changed from Nevada. Obama can not break through. He will not be the Presidential nominee. He will be the Vice Presidential nominee.
President Elect Obama says “Hi, Armando!”
This post is in: The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
That’s the latest absurdity from the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Radley Balko calls bullshit and lists a few people who managed to find jobs in spite of their pot use:
Barack Obama, president-elect. Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the U.S. John Kerry, U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic nominee for president. John Edwards, multi-millionaire, former U.S. Senator, and 2004 Democratic nominee for vice president. Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, 2008 Republican nominee for vice president. British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly, and and Chancellor Alistair Darling. Josh Howard, NBA all-star. New York Governor David Paterson. Former Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Oscar winner Al Gore. Former Sen. Bill Bradley, who smoked while playing professional basketball. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and former New York Governor George Pataki. Billionaire and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Balko is compiling a list. Feel free to add to it.
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This post is in: Previous Site Maintenance
I’m picking out a thread for you.
Not an ordinary thread, it’s true.
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This post is in: Military
First, a video:
As many of you know, I spent my time in the military as a proud member of the Army. However, due to a clerical error on the part of my contact for a worthwhile charity, I have been accidentally assigned to the Navy team. As such, I am proud to provide this website’s support to the Navy team for Project Valour-IT:
A little about this charity:
Every cent raised for Project Valour-IT goes directly to the purchase and shipment of laptops and other technology for severely wounded service members. As of November 2008, Valour-IT has distributed over 2700 laptops to severely wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines across the country, and is now expanding its mission to include other technology that supports physical and psychological recovery.
Valour-IT accepts donations in any amount to support our mission, but also offers a sponsorship option for laptops. An individual or organization may sponsor a wounded soldier by completely funding the cost of a laptop and continuing to provide that soldier with personal support and encouragement throughout recovery. This has proved to be an excellent project for churches, groups of coworkers or friends, and members of community organizations such Boy Scouts.
Originally Valour-IT provided the voice-controlled software that accompanies the laptops, but now works closely with the Department of Defense Computer/electronic Accommodations Program (CAP): CAP supplies the adaptive software and Valour-IT provides the laptop. In addition, DoD caseworkers serve as Valour-IT’s “eyes and ears” at several medical centers, identifying patients in need of laptops and other technological support for their recovery. Wounded military personnel can also directly request a laptop through the sign-up form or through the Valour-IT/Soldiers’ Angels representatives at the following medical centers:
* Balboa Naval Hospital
* Brooke Army Medical Center
* Madigan Regional Medical Center
* National Naval Medical Center (Bethesda Naval Hospital)
* Naval Hospital, Camp Pendleton
* Robert E. Bush Naval Hospital (29 Palms)
* Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Thanks to the efforts of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, Valour-IT is also able to reach patients in VA hospitals who would benefit from a Valour-IT laptop or other technology to support their recovery and independence.
This is a very good charity, and I hope you all support it. I will add a link to the right where the Obama thermometer was for the election.
And, for the first time in my memory, let me be the first to yell out “GO NAVY!” I hope you all have some change left over from the election to support this endeavor. I know you all understand how important the internet and modern technology is to our every day lives, and can recognize how useful this is for our guys and gals who really have given it all.
Thanks in advance.
This post is in: Assholes, Clown Shoes, Democratic Stupidity
As expected, the Obama Cult does not like to read any questioning of their Dear Leader. They demand we all STFU.
***What I can not understand is the ridiculous Cult of Obama who believes that not a negative or questioning word should be said about Obama ever. Oh sure, they’ll say “wait till he is President.” But then they’ll say “wait till he finishes his first year.” And after that, “wait for the mid terms.” And then “wait until after reelection.” In short, members of a cult can never have the leader of the cult criticized. That is how the Republicans have done it, and no one is as zealous as a convert.
Not to worry, they’ll be singing the “SYFP” song for the next 8 years and we’ll keep ignoring them. For some of us, it is the issues, not the pol.
GET OFF ON YOUR BAD SELF, YOU PARAGON OF PRINCIPLE, YOU!
With Democrats like this, who needs Red State? If there was anyone who was more tedious during this last election cycle than Armando, aka Big Tent Democrat, let me know. Besides turning one of my favorite sites, TalkLeft, into a pseudo-Puma cess-pool during the primaries (But he supports Obama, dont’cha know- speaking for him only!), BTD’s bigger sin was dispensing bad advice to the Obama campaign on an almost daily basis. If concern trolling was an art form, BTD would be Michelangelo and the 2008 Democratic primary his Sistine Chapel.
Because I am short on patience, and, at heart, a compassionate person, I am not going to go through the TalkLeft archives and dig up where BTD gravely intones that Obama can not win the white vote, can not win the Jewish vote, can not win the Hispanic vote, and on and on. I will not dig up all the stupid god damned advice he gave to the Obama campaign (which they, thank GOD, ignored). I will not look up the umpteen posts where the left’s own pompous village idiot warned that Obama could not win without Hillary on the ticket. I will not dig up the polling data that he consistently misread and always curiously interpreted as showing a need for Hillary on the ticket. I will let you do that for yourself, and you can enjoy your own historical retrospective into BTD’s idiocy. Yes, I voted for Bush twice, but I proudly state I am not as stupid as BTD. Period.
Instead, I will give you this:
It’s almost certain that the handoff of the White House from President George W. Bush to President-elect Barack Obama will pass more smoothly than the greeting that Bush’s new crew faced in 2001.
The Ws were removed from the keyboards in the Executive Office Building by departing Clinton administration staff members.
And it’s unquestionable that the transition from a Bush White House to an Obama White House will pass more quickly than the misstep-plagued passing of the baton from Herbert Hoover to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Four months of public disputes ensued in the midst of the Great Depression.
When Bush and Obama and their wives meet Monday afternoon at the White House, the departing president already will have set in motion a transition that he hopes to make part of his legacy for its orderliness. And the incoming leader already will have declared that the 43rd president will serve out his term without interference from the 44th, who will be sworn into office Jan. 20.
Any guesses why this is the case (and btw, the “w” keys incident is bullshit)? I am betting it is not because the Bush administration suddenly became competent, but because one side, the one that ran the smoothest, most drama free campaign in history, is making it this way. Up next, Al Giordano, who has credibility in places where BTD does not even have places:
Here are some additional points I gleaned from the question and answer session:
Obama won’t attend the G-20 Economic Summit: “We only have one president at a time,” said Podesta. “The president-elect will not be meeting with leaders who are coming to Washington. He will be in Chicago.” In some cases, top aides will meet with foreign leaders while they are in DC.
Don’t Expect Any Cabinet Nominations Until December: “No president other than George Herbert Walker Bush has named a cabinet member before December, going back to the Kennedy administration.” Obama himself will make those announcements, mostly from Chicago. Special early attention is being given to “the economic team and the national security team.” There is extensive vetting going on (no doubt Podesta remembers how President Clinton’s first and second nominations for Attorney General – Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood – crashed upon the discovery that each had hired undocumented workers, which also served to mire that administration in media turmoil at the precise moment when it had wanted to hit the ground running on policy). Obama will meet with each of his cabinet secretaries in person before approving them. Podesta made a joke about the press doing “stakeouts” to try and find out with whom he is meeting.
Expect more than one token Republican: President-elect Obama “wants to see people who are not just Democrats in office, to reach out and have Republicans and Independents not just on a token level,” and that will extend to sub-cabinet posts as well.
No Quid Pro Quo on Colombian Trade Deal: Podesta pushed back at press reports that President Bush had suggested exchanging his support for an economic recovery package for the US-Colombia trade agreement, which, Podesta iterated, “should be dealt with on its own merits.”
Economic Recovery-Stimulus Package Will Be First Order of Business: If the previous Congress hasn’t passed one already.
Every Executive Order by Bush is Under Review: Those that Obama promised during the campaign to rescind, will be eliminated immediately.
He Intends to Close the Facility at Guantanamo: In those words.
Withdrawing from Iraq: The policy “will be consistent with what he said in the campaign.”
In sum, the approach is extremely deliberative and organized to adhere exactly to promises made during the campaign. There won’t likely be any “Trojan Horse” attempts to spring unannounced initiatives in the early days of the administration. No real surprise there, to anyone that has been studying Obama carefully for clues as to how he will govern.
Next up, Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s long-term friend and advisor, who (and I know I am going out on a limb here, basing my judgment on fact, and not, as BigTentDemocrat would want, his GINORMOUS FUCKING EGO and inflated sense of self-importance) has the following to say:
Valerie Jarrett, transition co-chairman for President-elect Barack Obama, told an organization of black columnists today to be wary of published reports and speculation about Cabinet appointments.
“There isn’t a single name on that list that you’ve heard from President-elect Obama,” Jarrett told the Trotter Group in an hour-long interview session in Washington. “There’s not a single name on that list that you’ve heard from me, or from John Podesta or from Pete Rouse,” referring to the three co-chairs of Obama’s transition.
“Or, now from Rahm Emanuel. So the five people who actually do know the names on the list, you haven’t spoken to,” Jarratt said. “So what I think you see in the newspaper is what everybody speculates. … My guess is they’re speculating on the people who are most commonly thought of.”
In other words, there is a lot of bullshit floating around out there. No one knows what is going on, no decisions have been made. The press is in a vacuum, publishing rumor and innuendo, and you have no clue what Obama’s opinion on torture, Gitmo, or anything else is beyond what he has publicly stated repeatedly and campaigned upon, and for you, working from a profound position of ignorance (your normal state, I might add) to state that Obama all of a sudden supports torture but “merely wants greater oversight,” deserves nothing other than a firm round of South Park, the Musical ( link is totally NSFW, totally immature, and totally encapsulates my firm feelings about the biggest bloviating moron writing for a left-wing blog). I know you are still fondly dreaming of a Hillary 2012 challenge, but could you base the need for this on something other than speculation in the WSJ a mere week after the election (and two months before he is inaugurated)? Was the Corner busy? You couldn’t get any inside scoop from Michael Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard?
And before I close, let me finish with this. I left the right because they were such assholes I could not stand it anymore. You left good graces with the left because you were too much of an asshole, and they troll-rated you into oblivion. I may have been wrong about a lot of things in the past, and will be in the future, but I left the GOP because it was a cult. I was the one who was suspicious about Obama in the beginning. I think I have a solid eye for bullshit. And for the record, if you want to see what a “cult” looks like, you might want to check your own comment policy. We allow dissent here, and appreciate it. You are so dimwitted and thin-skinned you delete anything that deviates from your own bizarre dogma. Keep that in mind when I say this:
Yes, right now the “Cult of Obama” wants you to STFU. At least until he, you know, actually does something that deserves your derision. And if and when he does, we will join you. Until then, amuse yourself writing diaries for No Quarter, and while you are at it, do us a favor and ask Larry about the “Whitey” tape. Wanker.
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This post is in: Dog Blogging
On the way home, on a lark, I picked up some Grolsch, which I had not had for easily a dozen years. I remember it being much better. In fact, I will go on record and say this is horrid. I could not even finish one. Blech. Maybe it was skunked.
At any rate, some more pet pics. Some complaints about too many cats (what can I say, we are cat people here), so here are some pups for you:
Claim your pets.