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Jim Domen, the Ted Haggard-looking guy in the middle, celebrates returns for Proposition 8.
When asked his opinion on the passing of the ban, Domen said “The thought of two men having sex is sick and gross. It’s just disgusting. There’s the hairiness, and the anus, it’s just—it just makes me shudder. I probably wouldn’t support a ban on lesbian marriage, but since it’s all or nothing, I have to be a staunch supporter.”
Sarah and Todd Palin understand disability so well that they gave their son, who was born in April with Down syndrome, a joke name: Trig Paxson Van Palin (”in homage to the rock band Van Halen“).
I can’t argue that any child named for Van Halen shouldn’t be mentally disabled, but the joke first name and the rock star double-whammy makes me wonder if the Palin train of thought didn’t go something like Heck, he’s retarded; he’ll never know.
Sure, the Palin family names have been joked about for some time (”Track” is second-worst), but Trig Van Palin is beyond the pale. I can’t imagine the Palins opening their garden variety kids up to quite the same level of ridicule.
First, Republicans called a potential Obama Chief of Staff “among the most vitriolic and partisan people in American politics,” evidently right behind [every member of the Bush Administration, beginning with Bush]. Now, they’re accusing Obama of not supporting the freedom of speech, evidently right behind [every member of the Bush Administration, beginning with Bush].
Continue reading ‘Breaking News: First Amendment in Jeopardy…if Obama Elected?’
Via Scott Horton at Harper’s, where Horton also notes that McCain (”palled around”) with the apparently evil Rashid Khalidi on a large-scale funding of a West Bank project.
Continue reading ‘McCain P.R. Chief Goldfarb’s Onscreen Disintegration’
ExxonMobil, despite always denying that they’re bleeding us dry, has posted yet another record-breaking profit of $14.83 billion, many thanks to the GOP/Bush/McCain-supported subsidy that the company continues to enjoy.
There really isn’t much to say here that isn’t obvious—except that socialism is, of course, wrong. Unless it’s the kind of socialism that takes from the poor and gives $4 billion to the rich for no apparent reason.
Let’s do what John McCain says and keep the oil welfare intact. That way, ExxonMobil can stay lazy and make unfathomable billions on the backs of Americans who can’t afford plumbing licenses or taxes because they need to fill their gas tanks in order to work various under-the-table jobs.
I’m with Exxon CEO Lee Raymond (above): anything that doesn’t encourage tapping America dry before we perfect energy alternatives is not in his best interest.
Matt Drudge leads Google Trends today with his “shocking” headline about a mysterious “dark-skinned” ATM mugger who, after noticing a McCain sticker on his victim’s car, apparently “mutilated” her by “carving” a letter B on her face.
Oh, wait. Viewing the actual article reveals that she wasn’t “mutilated” or “carved” like a pumpkin, as Drudge indicates, but “scratched.”
UPDATE: The “victim” now admits to making the story up.
Continue reading ‘Breaking News! Matt Drudge Mutilates Thesaurus’
Hot on the heels of Sen. McCain’s Obama=Paris Hilton ad and news that 86% of Americans could be overweight by 2030, WSJ’s Amy Chozick speculates that perhaps beanpole Barack isn’t fat enough to win the US Presidency.
And if it wasn’t embarrassing enough that Slate’s Timothy Noah sensed “racial subtext” in Chozick’s piece (”Would you want your sister to marry one? Would you want a whole family of skinny people to move in next-door?”), the perceptive Aaron Barnhart at the Kansas City Star notes that the story is nothing new; it actually appeared six months ago as a parody on The Onion.
Here’s to good journalism; check it out here:
Continue reading ‘When McCain Likens Himself to Teddy Roosevelt, Should Obama Look to Taft?’
I was a little shocked to see that the airlines will pay about $20,000,000,000 more than usual for oil this year (about 4x the industry’s total earnings in 1999, it’s most profitable year to date), but I was even more surprised when I got this email, called “Help US fight skyrocketing oil prices,” asking for my assistance with the cause:
Reader Mike just scooped us with a new website that went live around July 4.
Apparently Joe Bennett from a small town in Pennsylvania has started a website called OurRepublic.us. In his manifesto that begins on the front page, he says “War is Declared Against the Left,” and his site sports such slogans as “Save America, Shoot a Liberal,” and “I Hear Spanish, I Start Shooting.”
Continue reading ‘Save America, Shoot a Liberal; [When] I Hear Spanish, I Start Shooting’
I had to post this amazing clip. About 20 seconds in, conservative New York Times columnist and Fox News regular William Kristol gives a lagging Hillary Clinton advice on how to burst the Obama bubble: “The way to puncture euphoria is with…fear…and I recommend to Senator Clinton the politics of fear.”
Never has this oft-used tactic been made so explicit by a conservative, and Haper’s Contributor Scott Horton sums it up nicely:
“The key that Hillary can use to take down Barack Obama, says this political analyst, is ‘the politics of fear.’…[Kristol] is convinced that fear-mongering works very effectively in a democratic society…here is what [Edmund] Burke had to say about the tactics of fear:
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear…Those despotic governments, which are founded on the passions of men, and principally upon the passion of fear, keep their chief as much as may be from the public eye.
“Fear is employed to cripple reason, to enslave, to craft tyrannical rule, [Burke] says. Fear is not a tool that a democratic state uses on its own people. This is a simple, fundamental, vital point. And Kristol exposes a crude cynicism…I propose that we keep on top of Mr. Kristol. Let’s open a ‘Ministry of Fear Watch…’”
The writers of Owl and Bear vs. Bill O’Reilly: our latest theme?
If you haven’t heard, Bill O’Reilly recently caught some flak for making a vaguely-racist comment about Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle. Someone called into his radio show and made comments indicating that she had an anger problem. O’Reilly insisted that they had to look into the facts more and, “I don’t want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there’s evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels.”
Not to get on a soapbox, but this has a lot to do with music, and it annoys me:
In What Bill O’Reilly Really Told Me, FOX News analyst Juan Williams sat down to clarify that Mr. O’Reilly wasn’t actually being racist when he recently expressed surprise about the lack of blacks profanely demanding food at a Harlem restaurant.
