What liberal media?

As of 4-ish PM today (ignore the timestamp on this post.  I cannot for the life of me make the server and the blog and my personal account agree on what time it is):

Results 1 - 30 of about 9,379 for obama convention ratings
Results 1 - 30 of about 1,854 for palin convention ratings.

Note the dates on the stories crowing about Obama’s numbers.  The morning after the speech, all the media wanted to do was crow about how many people watched Jesus Barack Kennedy Obama descend from the heavens on a cloud of ether and save America from itself.  Today?  No one wants to talk about how the entire country watched the hockey mom bitchslap an entire political party and never even smudge her lipstick.  Instead they’re trying to denigrate her, to demean her public life, impugn her private life and make every effort to destroy her entire family JUST SO THEIR GOLDEN CHILD WON’T LOSE AN ELECTION.

Oh, that liberal media.

Sarah Palin knocked it out of the park last night and didn’t utter a word about gay marriage, abortion or any of the other divisive crap that has threatened to destroy the South Park Conservative/Libertarian support for the GOP.  She spoke about things we (by which I mean (Conservo-Libertarian Americans) care about, things we can actually do, things that can change.  She targeted the idiocy that comes out of the Obama camp.  She kept her family front and center and dared these idiots to keep picking on them.  She dared them to keep attacking her as a hick and a mom and inexperienced.  And they are taking the dare.

NEVER INTERRUPT YOUR ENEMY WHEN HE IS MAKING A MISTAKE.  Let them talk, Palin supporters.  Let them speak unopposed for a week or so.  Let them tell all women in America that you cannot have kids and a career.  Let them mock small towns.  Let them attack young mothers.  Let them alienate half of the country.  Let it happen.  Let them try to equate Barack running a campaign with Palin running a state.  Let them attack her for being mayor of a small town.  Not only can it not hurt Palin and McCain, it will hurt Barack and Biden

As I said in a comment over at Rachel Lucas’ blog last night...my “ROSLIN ‘08 - SO SAY WE ALL” shirt is now even cooler.  We can actually vote for Laura fraking Roslin.  Plus I got nominated and seconded by the commenters for Rachel’s coveted “Chuck Norris Action Jeans ‘Unique Hidden Gusset’ Award For Excellence In Commenting.  Which kicks so much ass.  I mean it obviously has to.  It’s Norris-y.

Hey, you know what would be the awesomest ticket ever? Palin/Lucas ‘12.  SO SAY WE ALL.  The White House would be full of dead caribou and huge lazy dogs, and Rachel would teach Maggie to eat reporters instead of possums.

That’s genius.  We need to make that happen.

Posted by JimK at 03:56 PM on September 04, 2008
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McCain picks Palin

Sarah Palin on the Republican ticket is a great birthday present.  Thank you, Senator McCain.  It’s just what I wanted.

Donna asked me the other day who I thought McCain should pick as his Veep.  Sarah Palin was the only name I offered.  She’s smart, she’s an outsider, she’s tough and she can pull Hillary voters to her bosom.  She runs the most unforgiving state in the union.  She does all the things that male politicians pretend to do in order to get elected.  She’s young *with* experience.  I wish she was running at the top of the ticket instead of McCain.  I could see myself voting *for* her and not just against Biden and Obama.

Plus she’s cougar-riffic.  That can never be a bad thing.  FINALLY a brilliant decision by the McCain campaign.  Learn more about Sarah here.  There is a lot to like.

Think about the historical significance here.  We’re either going to get a black President or a woman as VP.  And yet all we hear is how racist and sexist this nation is.  Does. Not. Compute.

*UPDATE*

Some more thoughts.  Palin is now being attacked by the Obama camp for being the mayor of a small town with zero foreign policy experience.  What?  Her state borders Russia and Canada.  That’s more foreign policy experience right there than Obama, Biden and probably even McCain put together!  Actual, practical dealings with foreign governments count, Obama campaign idiots.

Sarah Palin is the perfect choice.  She is the past, a family-oriented conservative with a record of fiscal prudence, and she is the future, a strong, civic-minded woman with a love for guitar rock.  She can literally be the cornerstone upon which the GOP can rebuild after the destruction caused by the Bush/Rove/Cheney era.  They call Obama “The One” but even with the few things over which I disagree with palin, I think she’s the one.

Prediction: McCain/Palin victory, Palin heads a ticket in 2012 and Hillary locks it up for her side and we get a Hillary/Sarah race.  Now that;s some shit to look forward to...Palin won’t take none of that Clinton guff.

Posted by JimK at 01:38 PM on August 29, 2008
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Obama picks Biden

Really?  Hopeyful Changitude means you pick an establishment old white man as your Veep?  That’s the new, different, special, Obama style of politics?  Sounds like precisely and exactly the same old kind of politics, only with cool catchphrases like “Sure, If you want!” and “Tax the rich!” and “Who’s Tony Rezko?”

Hopeyful Changitude.  The other white meat?

Posted by JimK at 02:34 PM on August 23, 2008
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Silky Pony banging one on the side

Remember when the Democrats went apeshit over Larry Craig?  It wasn’t the fact that he may have asked for gay sex or was gay, it was the hypocrisy, remember?

Now think back to ALL THE FUCKING LECTURES from Elizabeth and John Edwards about morality, family, trust, etc.

Now laugh at the sheer fucking arrogance of those two.

And this is why Gotcha Politics is ruining this country and the world.  Six months from now a Republican will get gotted.  Then a Democrat.  Then a Republican.  And so on.  The media will promote the shit out of every Republican that gets caught and barely mention the Democrats, so bloggers and some conservative reporters will dig harder for (D) mis-steps.  And the cycle repeats ad infinitum.

STOP LECTURING PEOPLE ABOUT HOW TO LIVE THEIR GOD-DAMNED LIVES, ASSHOLES.  Just take care of infrastructure, trade, diplomacy and the occasional war.

Posted by JimK at 03:40 PM on August 08, 2008
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Obama is The Joker

Seriously.  Go ahead.  Ask me how.

OK, I’ll tell you how Obama is The Joker.  The Joker calls himself an agent of chaos.  Chaos can be seen as a state of constant change.  It’s change not for a reason, but for the sake of changing, with no firm end in sight and no solid base upon which one can fix oneself.

Obama is The Joker.  This, however, does not make McCain Batman.  Unless Batman is secretly 96.96% Joe Lieberman and 3.04% Hillary Clinton.

Funny aside: Dictionary.com offers this example for chaos; “a chaos of meaningless phrases.” Doh!  Now that is change you can believe in.  Yes you can!

Posted by JimK at 09:53 PM on July 25, 2008
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Yellow cake is delicious

Remember how there was no yellowcake uranium in Iraq?

Uhh...oops?

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program _ a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium _ reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.

The removal of 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” _ the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment _ was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam’s nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.

What’s now left is the final and complicated push to clean up the remaining radioactive debris at the former Tuwaitha nuclear complex about 12 miles south of Baghdad _ using teams that include Iraqi experts recently trained in the Chernobyl fallout zone in Ukraine.

“Everyone is very happy to have this safely out of Iraq,” said a senior U.S. official who outlined the nearly three-month operation to The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.

While yellowcake alone is not considered potent enough for a so-called “dirty bomb” _ a conventional explosive that disperses radioactive material _ it could stir widespread panic if incorporated in a blast. Yellowcake also can be enriched for use in reactors and, at higher levels, nuclear weapons using sophisticated equipment.

The Iraqi government sold the yellowcake to a Canadian uranium producer, Cameco Corp., in a transaction the official described as worth “tens of millions of dollars.” A Cameco spokesman, Lyle Krahn, declined to discuss the price, but said the yellowcake will be processed at facilities in Ontario for use in energy-producing reactors.

“We are pleased ... that we have taken (the yellowcake) from a volatile region into a stable area to produce clean electricity,” he said.

Huh.  That’s...odd.  Canada bought non-existent yellowcake from Iraq?  But that’s unpossible.  Bush lied.  Joe Wilson said so.  So did every human being that is to the left of Sean Hannity...which quite frankly is most of them.  I’m confused.  What did Canada pay for?  Air?  Bush’s lies?  A reacharound?

Posted by JimK at 02:14 PM on July 06, 2008
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Heller smells like victory…partial victory

This is good, but it’s only a partial victory. 

A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the first time that the Constitution protects individual gun rights, striking down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban and raising questions about weapons restrictions elsewhere.

The 5-4 ruling resolves a constitutional question that had lurked for two centuries: whether the Second Amendment covers people who aren’t affiliated with a state-run militia.

``The enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table,’’ Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the majority in the final decision of the court’s nine-month term. ``These include the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home.’’

It affirms the individual right to self defense, but the language is narrow, focused on home defense and handguns, and leaves a lot of wiggle room.  The limits of today’s ruling are explored at Reason.  It’s worth a read.

For states without a Castle Doctrine, that leaves a lot of places where states and cities can still try to gun grab.  It doesn’t matter to them how useless these laws are.  It doesn’t matter how ineffective gun bans are.  They won’t stop.  It’s a religion.

Next case please.  One that takes this even further and leaves these over-reaching nanny mayors and governors across the land with NO ambiguity; you shall not infringe on the people’s right to keep and bear arms.

It must suck to work for the Brady Center today.

Posted by JimK at 09:15 PM on June 26, 2008
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Obama vs. McCain

Seems to be all but over.

We’re completely fucked either way.  There isn’t a good choice to be made here.  It’s between a crazy old liar who can’t wait to spend our money or a crazy young liar who can’t wait to spend our money.

Posted by JimK at 10:12 PM on June 03, 2008
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McPander at it again

Republican John McCain said Wednesday that the bridge collapse in Minnesota that killed 13 people last year would not have happened if Congress had not wasted so much money on pork-barrel spending.

Federal investigators cite undersize steel plates as the “critical factor” in the collapse of the bridge. Heavy loads of construction materials on the bridge also contributed to the disaster that injured 145 people on Aug. 1, according to preliminary findings by the National Transportation Safety Board.

“The bridge in Minneapolis didn’t collapse because there wasn’t enough money,” McCain told reporters while campaigning in Pennsylvania. “The bridge in Minneapolis collapsed because so much money was spent on wasteful, unnecessary pork-barrel projects.”

Sounds like a reasonable complaint regarding the government.  It certainly resonates as potentially true, and I am sure it got a rousing bit of applause, or at least a bunch of reporters thinking what a maverick he is for saying it.

Only problem is, we know that it simply isn’t true.  It was a design flaw and the money didn’t even enter the equation.

Sixteen fractured gusset plates in the center span on Interstate 35W were a main cause of the deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis last August, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Tuesday. The plates, which connected steel beams in the truss bridge, were roughly half the thickness they should have been because of a design error. How that flaw made it into the bridge is unclear; according to NTSB chairman Mark Rosenker, investigators couldn’t find the original design calculations. Extra weight from construction was also a factor in the tragedy

There can be no doubt that we spend too much on pork projects.  BUT...at the same time Senator McMaverick is claiming that the government let the bridge fall, he (and the Wicked Witch of Yale) wants to bankrupt the very fund designed to maintain and build infrastructure in this country.

How’s that for talking out of both sides of his mouth?  White man speak with forked tongue.  I know Goose died and everything, but there’s no need to take it out on the rest of us, Maverick.

My presidential vote here in Connecticut is utterly worthless.  CT will go blue and that’s the end of it.  That fact may save my sanity this fall, as I will not make one whit of difference to anyone if I refuse to pull the lever (we still have old school levers) for McCain, and I gotta tell you...I just might refuse.  I’m so sick and tired of him and his pandering.  The three of them are utterly nauseating and totally uninspiring as people and politicians.

I’ll never forgive you, Fred Thompson.  You raised my hopes and then you came to dash them.

Hat tip; Insty

Posted by JimK at 11:51 AM on May 01, 2008
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Pulse-taking

Quick question: Does Obama seem inevitable anymore?  Because I am starting to feel like he’s only begun to be tested, and he’s coming up short on all counts.  The more he gets questioned, the angrier and more political-suicide-y his responses get.  Will Hopeyful Changitude Man continue to be the opposite of the emperor’s new clothes and walk around an empty suit all day?

Are we heading for a Maverick vs. The Wicked Witch of Yale contest come November?  Will it really be two of the worst politician in America vying for the top job?  Not that Senator Change is a reasonable choice either.

I never thought I’d say this, but I actually miss Al Gore.  At least he has some kind of motivating drive, aside from eating his weight in cheeseburgers I mean.  He’s the King of the Environment, and at least you know what he’s doing even if you think he’s batshit crazy for it.  Changitude and The Wicked Witch of Yale are bending with the wind and setting policy by poll, and Senator Asshole is still all consumed with not letting Iceman beat him in the rankings.  No one beats the Maverick!

That was my ridiculously complicated way of saying John McCain is more concerned with maintaining his media-approved-and-created image as a maverick than he is with any kind of political reality or philosophy.  I explain this just in case my metaphor, as I suspect it did, fell apart.

I am less enthused about this election cycle than I am about the events that will happen in 16 months.  See, in 16 months I will turn 40, and they say you have to start getting prostate exams and whatnot.  So I’m going to have to find an ass doctor, which just seems utterly wrong to start with, that you’d trust your health to a guy that chose to specialize in buttholes, and then I get to pay him to jam him fingers up my ass and wriggle them about a bit.

For the record, I’m not a fan.  I had a bad experience back there once and now I see my browneye as that old saw of a joke: exit only.

That having been said, I think I would rather have weekly prostate exams - from a prison proctologist with a bad attitude and very large hands - than vote for any of these three front-running buffoons.  It’s looking more and more like I will have to be Maverick’s wingman, though.  The very idea makes me want to beat puppies with very large steel pipes.

They say you get the government you deserve.  I say bullshit.  I don’t deserve these idiots and neither do you.  Wouldn’t it be awesome if en masse, everyone just didn’t vote for anyone to be president?  What if we really did only vote for local, state and Congressional races, and left the row for president blank?  Would they get the message, or is this all really going to have to eventually end in a bloody battle for control ala Jericho?  How many generations are left in the Great Experiment?

And now you know one of the reasons why I haven’t been blogging much.  As far as I am concerned, just repeat this post every flipping day from now until election day.  That’s just one more reason why I need to start posting beautiful ladies with red hair and bare bosoms again.  Politics is transient.  Boobs are forever.

That really sounded deeper in my head.  ;)

Posted by JimK at 12:37 PM on April 28, 2008
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