“The Ungrateful Bitch, Pt. 1″
I think this show is my New Favorite Thing.
Is everything British better?
Ahhhh….
Well at least they’re starting to wake up! Even the goopers don’t like him anymore.
from Brave New Films blog
On the other hand, I think I’d rather have my country back.
Are you a geek?
I’d like to think I’m not, but I really do like some of these items:
WC Notes
Keyboard waffles | Tetris ice cubes | Star Trek bottle opener
I’m Pregnant
I did it. I put down a deposit on the little guy in the photo above. He’ll be ready to be separated from the rest of the litter next week (5/15). That’s cool, cos I don’t know about this whole pregnancy thing right now. The gas pains are killing me.
In other news, click here.
My favorite?
BARACK OBAMA SET YOUR VOICE AS HIS NEW RINGTONE.
Okay, okay, now click here.
HILLARY CONTAINS HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP.
Ha ha, more gently amusing ways to waste hours of time on the Internet can be found here, with “The Twelve Internet Memes that Took Obama to the Nomination”.
In other primary news, even Ensign Crusher is having a Hillary problem:
It’s over. She knows it’s over. It’s been over for almost three months, but she’s been moving the goalposts and cynically and cravenly pandering to voters in a way that’s not only insulting, but is embarrassing. John Cole frequently says that he can’t believe he ever supported Bush, and I can now join him in saying that I can’t believe I ever supported, defended and believed in the Clintons.
You know, I kind of hate it for John Cole, who became a Democrat just in time to get swept up in a circular firing squad of historic dimensions. I would say, “John, please don’t go. It’s not always like this, I swear.”
Except that it kind of is.
Oliver Willis sees the real fatal flaw of the Obama campaign:
He’s getting too many votes.
In 32 out of the 47 contests more people have voted and caucused for Sen. Obama than for Sen. Clinton. Why is the media not reporting on this? They spend so much time on the slicing and dicing of the electorate highlighting ad nauseam which blocs are voting for and against a candidate when the writing is on the wall.
More people are voting for Sen. Obama and that’s a huge problem in the fall. If we extrapolate this trend, it’s possible that he could, in the general election, have more votes than any other presidential candidate in history! The nomination process will be a mockery of the highest order if Howard Dean and the DNC sit back and allow the person with the most votes and most supporters to walk away with the nomination. This isn’t what we all signed up for.
I hope the other hopelessly biased pro-Obama blogs like the sinister Josh Marshall, the Great Orange Satan, and Huffington Post all stop taking those bags of cash from David Plouffe and understand the path they’re marching down.
Do you really want to live in a country where the leading vote getter worms his way into the nomination for one of the two major parties in America?
I don’t. I shudder at the thought.
OMG, you’re right. Quick, we have to do something to stop this before it’s too late!
And that’s what I’ve got tonight gang. How are you guys?
Ya know it’s over when
they start asking questions like THIS.
Whom will Obama pick as his vice president?
WASHINGTON — With the Democratic nomination almost within his grasp, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama sometime soon will start the next great guessing game in American politics: Who will be his running mate?
What other signs are you seeing that the HRC campaign is toast?
Um…
How’s that again?
USA Today notices that Sen. Hillary Clinton has begun referring explicitly to her appeal among white voters while on the campaign trail:
Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters — including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
And women named “Susan”, men with ferns in their homes, and people with last names that have five or fewer letters, all key, key constituencies to winning the White House in 2008. Of course, there’s the issue of the potentially racially charged subtext in Clinton’s comments above, which is explored here at Jack and Jill Politics:
Hard-working Americans = white Americans. Right. The rest of us sit on our porches eating watermelon and plucking banjos.
For some reason, despite this “broader base” Clinton still seems to be having trouble raising money, and you know, getting more votes than her opponent. But at this point any abstract metric besides votes or delegates that Clinton can use as a rationale for her candidacy becomes the only appropriate one to use.
This kind of comment is less a description than an agitator, it’s meant to give white voters the impression that they would be “disenfranchised” by an Obama win. It’s a not so subtle effort to evoke racial resentment over Obama’s success.
In other words, Shorter Clinton Campaign: “Are you nuts? This man is a nig-oh, sorry.”
McLame is the Bear
Cenk is a genius.
They don’t want us in their country?
I wonder why? Any guesses? Just hope that the UN and the rest of the world can provide some relief for the survivors.
Myanmar Military Finally Allows U.N. Cyclone Relief, Still Shuts Out U.S.
The U.N. says its first plane loaded relief supplies has landed in Myanmar.
Cyclone affected families eat donated food in the cyclone-hit Hlaing Thayar township in western…(Hla Hla Htay, AFP/Getty Images)
Relief supplies from the United Nations began arriving in Myanmar Thursday, but U.S. military planes loaded with aid were still denied access by the country’s isolationist regime five days after a devastating cyclone.
The military junta also continued to stall on visas for U.N. teams seeking entry to ensure the aid is delivered to the victims amid fears that lack of safe food and drinking water could push the death toll above 100,000.
Two airplanes carrying high-energy biscuits, medicine and other supplies arrived in Yangon, and two others were to follow, U.N. officials said. The planes had waited for the last two days while the world body negotiated with the military regime to allow the material into the Southeast Asian nation.
In Yangon, the cyclone blew off the roof of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and snapped the electricity connection to her dilapidated lakeside bungalow, where she is under house arrest, a neighbor said.
Anyone see this in the for-profit media?
Or anywhere else in the US press? I haven’t and I read a LOT of headlines every day.
Mad Cow Disease Fears Cause Mass Demonstrations 20,000+ Strong in South Korea
In Seoul, South Korea, this past Friday 10,000 people took to the streets in a candle light vigil to oppose US beef imports that many fear may be tainted with mad cow disease. Overnight, the number of peaceful protesters doubled and by Saturday night, 20,000 - 25,000 South Koreans held candles and raised their voices against American beef imports.
I joined the protests on Saturday to learn more.
The demonstrations targeted South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, self-declared “CEO of the Korea, Inc.,” who recently met with US President Bush to swallow a $20 billion free trade deal. The deal pivoted on South Korea’s consent to vastly increase US beef imports at the expense of its farmers and against the will of its citizens.
But South Koreans fear that mad cow disease has not been eradicated in the US. In particular, many point out that mad cow disease can remain dormant for decades in humans who have eaten tainted meat.
Many of the protesters this weekend were women who were extremely upset that in years to come their children might pay with their lives for President Lee’s kowtowing to US export interests.
Not only does the opening of Korean markets to US beef have South Koreans feeling worried for health safety reasons. It will also starve out South Korean beef farmers, who have led separate demonstrations across Korea against importing US beef.
The US-Korea deal will also badly damage the Australian cattle industry, which had more than doubled exports to South Korea since 2003, when concerns over mad cow disease caused a drop in US beef imports to the country.
Lastly, many South Koreans point out with alarm that beef products from US cattle older than 30 months, which are at particular risk for mad cow disease and which are generally not eaten in the United States, will make their way to Korean dinner tables.
Careful, Miss MalKKKin, Your Face is Going to Stick That Way
It’s pretty much over for Michelle MalKKKin. Banished from the O’Reilly Factor and left to molder on her own in the plush fortress of her Germantown, Maryland home, she finds herself with no candidate in the 2008 race (Tom Tancredo, of course, having won less support than genital herpes in the GOP primaries), and the increasing likelihood of a Black President closing in on her hard and fast. Poor little crazy-headed thing.
So, what’s she turning her poison pen to, these days? After her years of being a dirt-mongering, character assassinating, bile-spewing harpy for the Right, Our Lady of the Perpetually Twisted Panties has decided to engage in a bit of heavy projection, as is her wont:
Stalkin’ Malkin has jumped on the new conservameme of declaring Obama unelectable because of his shrewish harridan of a wife. Saith the Naughty Girl:
So get over yourself already, haughty spirit. Pride doesn’t photograph well. And bitterness leaves frown lines. Which means Botox bills. Which “struggling folks” like you and your husband simply cannot afford. Try smiling for once. It’s cheaper.
So, to recap, Michelle Malkin, the world’s angriest anchor baby, who is literally professionally outraged, a woman whose natural state is somewhere between indignant and incensed, who takes offense if she wakes up laying on her left side, is counseling someone else to relax, stop frowning, get over herself, and smile. RHETORICIAN HEAL THYSELF!
Hahahaha! “Rhetorician”. More like “Unhinged Loony Twat Heal Thyself”.
Yes, the reigning queen of the shrill, screechy, foam-flecked, perpetually outraged poo-flingers of the right has deigned to accuse Michelle Obama of being too strident. This has been another installment in our series “Ways to Tell that Michelle MalKKKin’s House Doesn’t Have Mirrors”.
Thank you, and have a pleasant tomorrow.