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It may be debatable what exactly Nancy Pelosi is dumber than, but "soap" was the word of choice attached to this YouTube clip.
Journalspace.com no longer exists. The explanation for why it's gone can be found on their site. It's somewhat convoluted and pretty funny, but not nearly as hilarious as this You Tube Video about JS's demise.
I once had a blog at JS. The place sucked. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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President-elect Barack Obama's name may soon pop up in another federal prosecution, this one involving a massive Ponzi scheme (no, the other massive Ponzi scheme). In addition to the Rod Blagojevich pay-for-play probe, Obama could figure in the upcoming fraud trial of Norman Hsu, the disgraced Democratic fundraiser who was charged last year with operating a $60 million pyramid scheme. According to investigators, Hsu, a major Hillary Clinton fundraiser, pressured investors to donate money to political candidates with whom he was aligned. it was "inevitable" that his client's "connections" to Bill and Hillary Clinton "and other democratic notables--including perhaps the president-elect--will be introduced at trial." Before becoming a key fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's presidential bid, Hsu co-hosted a 2005 California fundraiser for Obama's political action committee Marrero declined to delay the trial, which will begin a week before Obama's inauguration
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I subscribe to The New Yorker Magazine. I do that because George W Bush was elected president of the US for two terms, and I make it a point to read articles in magazines that take the opposite political opinion of whomever is in office. Most of the time I don't agree with the opinions expressed by the liberal political spectrum, but at least I'm aware of what that side is up to, and that's important to me. It's soon time to change magazine subscriptions since Obamarx has been elected president for the next 4 years. I'll probably get the Weekly Standard and allow The New Yorker to lapse.
Meanwhile, I continue receiving the issues left on my subscription to TNY. There hasn't been enough time for them to begin earnestly gushing about the wonders of our new POTUS which is a good thing. My stomach still has not settled down from the battering upset it took election night. I may not be up to all that gooey nonsense about "change" and "saving the world" that other publications and media services have begun.
However, the 8 December 2008 issue of TNY has an interesting cover. It shows Obamarx interviewing one dog while a line of hopeful pups wait their turn outside his office door. I don't know or care what the artist who concocted this image had in mind, but I know what I thought as soon as I saw the cover... Obamarx is spending more time and giving more thought to what kind of puppy he's going to give to his children as the bribery payoff he promised them than he gave to whomever his Secretary of State was going to be.
He actually did it. He named Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State for his administration. Not only did he put her in his cabinet, but he did it with the same straight face he used to announce Joe Biden would be his running mate.
I keep a book of my favorite quotes into which I enter new additions as I come across them anywhere from online to bumper stickers. One of the more recent entries is, "100,000 lemmings can't be wrong." Apparently neither can several million American voters urged on by an almost criminally incompetent media who served up Obamarx on a regular basis with a halo shining over his head and some drivel about his bringing "change" to Washington. Now I get it. While everyone thought "change" meant a difference in behavior, what it really means is the pennies and nickels that rattle around in the bottom of our handbags. We usually refer to that as "loose change", but in this case there's nothing "loose" about Obamarx. He hatched his plans and kept his intentions secret from those millions of American voters, some of whom still believe they're actually going to get tax breaks and not worry where their jobs have gone. Better start counting up all that "loose change" people; it may come in handy to balance your own personal budget very soon.
Meanwhile, the Clintons are about to be set loose in Washington once again. We can only shudder to think what Willie has in mind as he finds ways to entertain himself. And Hillary? I'd make darn sure anything that isn't nailed down in the White House is guarded by round-the-clock secret service agents. Last time she was allowed free reign there even typewriter keys disappeared.
It will be interesting to see what new covers TNY comes up with week after week as Obamarx continues to define his priorities. Not interesting enough to renew my subscription to TNY, but there ought to be a few chuckles before my Weekly Standard kicks in.
So, Matthews FINALLY admits where he stands in the political spectrum. What a pathetic loser. I no longer watch MSNBC. Between Edward R Olbermann and Chris the Screamer, I just don't have the stomach for it.
I once asked a Fibberal close to me who among the cratz would be better than Bush to lead the US. This was at the beginning of the Iraqi invasion. His answer was, "Anybody But Bush". So I said, "but who? Name 5 people who'd be better." His only answer, and this is because there was no one better suited from the cratz party to do the job so he couldn't come up with a name as well as wouldn't admit to having no options in mind, was: "Anybody But Bush". The people have spoken. We now have Anybody But Bush running the US. That is how I intend to refer to our new "leader": Mr Anybody But Bush. Not my choice, mind you. The choice of a Fibbie.
Mr Anybody But Bush announced during his "victory" speech last night, that if anyone still wondering whether America is the land where anything is possible need look no further than yesterday's election results. For the first time Mr ABB said something with which I can agree albeit not with his same intent. I now understand better than ever before than the inmates truly do run the asylum.
Where else but in America could a man with obvious terrorist ties, a man who not only condones but continues to attend a church in which the pastor preaches race hate rhetoric from the pulpit, AND a man who maintains mob connections gets elected president. In a country where the Fibberal media jumps all over every word a Conservative utters with the fine-tooth comb of political correctness dripping from all its teeth, did report Mr ABB's associations. They were simply willing to overlook from him what they'd never have allowed for a second from someone else. Why? You figure it out. It seems awfully clear to me.
It isn't just that Mr ABB is not qualified to run a vacuum cleaner much less a country, it's also that, thanks to his lack of experience and sense, we are also stuck with Joe Biden as being the guy one heartbeat away from the presidency. That should scare the shit out of every American, but unfortunately the inmates overlooked that. Once it became evident that Joe Biden would gnaw on his foot every time he opened his mouth, he was scooted off to the sidelines where hopefully he wouldn't do more damage. Joe Biden is a joke, and people from his own party as well as media pundits all acknowledge this.
So, we're stuck with either Mr ABB or worst case scenario, Joey Biden. That's bad enough, but there's more...
Today Mr ABB announced that Illinois Representative Raym Emmanuel will be his White House Chief of Staff... in an administration Mr ABB says is going to reflect "change" in America. Raym Emmanuel was a political and policy aide in Bill Clinton's White House. The ABB Transition Team is headed by John Podesta, who served as chief of staff under former President Clinton. Who's next... Janet Reno as White House Chef? Where's the change here? Looks like more of Clinton to me, and that's definitely NOT a good thing.
I'm told that during his "victory" speech last night, Mr ABB talked about the "sacrifices" we need to make as a country during this time. That makes me wonder. Does Ms Moocher, who stated before tv cameras that she no longer has to worry about paying her mortgage nor does she has to worry about paying for her fuel, realize that when a politician starts telling you that you need to make sacrifices, they do NOT mean turning off the lights in rooms which are unoccupied. No, they mean prepare to have your taxes hiked sky high, and forget that stuff about who is exempt from tax hikes and who is not. Be prepared to pay more for everything you want thanks to the taxes small business will have to absorb... and forget about those monetary limits on what constitutes small business that kept dwindling the longer the campaign went on.
So, I get it. Just like the first O J verdict, the election of Mr ABB is a reflection of the Fibbie Payback Mentality. For 8 years they have relentlessly dogged every move George W Bush has made with no regard for fact or benefit to the country or protection from terrorism. If Bush did it; it was not just bad, but criminal. So the electorate turned out to give us Anybody But Bush, and a clown whose foot takes up permanent residence in his mouth most of the time. Not only that, but they further insult my intelligence by telling me this is a "unity" move. Balderdash. It's Payback... which IS hell.
David Singleton, a reporter with the Scranton Times-Tribune, quoted an unknown male member of a Sarah Palin political rally as having shouted "Kill Him" when Barack Obama's name was mentioned by congressional candidate, Chris Hackett. Not surprisingly several media sources, including your up-to-the-minute Conservative bashing thinks-he's-Edward-R-Murrow Keith Olbermann gleefully reported this story over and over again as proof that those lunatic wingers are gonna assassinate Barack Obama. The Fibbies have this mania for insisting that wingers are out for blood lust whenever a racial minority is involved in anything.
Turns out, this story isn't true. Turns out that the Secret Service couldn't find anyone to corroborate this story, and the only one who heard those words uttered was David Singleton, the guy who wrote the story.
This is why I call 'em Fibberals, people. The Fibbies I've seen never once allow facts to get in the way of the message they want us to hear. I've lost count of every time some Fibbie came up with an outlandish accusation only to be unable to prove what he or she's stated as fact. That's when we get the nonsense about "documentaries with satire" or someone like Al Franken, just having been totally discredited, sitting there with a shell-shocked look on his face unable to defend himself or explain why he just told so many lies about Bernie Goldberg.
It is one hell of a desperate ploy and a shameful way to try to get elected when Fibbies believe they'll help their candidate by using their positions to publish outrageous lies like the "Kill Him" debacle. But that's when you get with Fibbies. Over and over and over again.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: If you discount Michael Moore, Joe Biden is the world's dumbest white man...
Yesterday I received an email invitation to join a new book group at Shelfari. I don't remember what the name of the group was, but the idea behind it was that there are some books which aren't great literature and will probably not make it to bestseller lists, but they still have an appeal. People in this group were encouraged to share their "finds" in this area. The Administrator of the group started off with a recommendation of her own -- a book I'd never heard of, but I decided to check into it at some point. I often stray from the bestseller list, so this group sounded great to me.
I got interrupted and had to leave my computer before I was finished looking around at who else had joined the group, although this one was really new. It had only been in existence for about 7 hours, so there weren't many introduction messages written by other members. Today I went back to check the group out further since I had received a note at my Shelfari site from the leader of this group thanking me for joining. She hadn't been the one to invite me -- one of my other Shelfari friends had done that, and I'd check out anything "Julie" recommended because we share some of the same tastes in books.
The first introduction message I read was enough for me. I resigned from the group immediately and deleted all references to it from my profile/message page. There are groups I will not join nor will I read any of the posts they contain because of certain members who got there before me. If those people join after me, I leave. Reading is one of the things I enjoy most in this world. The exchange of ideas, for me, is inherent in book discussions. I won't belong to a group that allows bigotry or outright stupidity no matter what the cause. And one of those causes, for me, is what political party I subscribe to.
The person who introduced herself in this new group said that she has no friends because she recently moved to a part of Ohio where she's surrounded by McCain-Palin signs. She said the "Christian zealots" were getting to her. Since it wasn't my group, I didn't feel as though I could answer her properly right then and there. Instead I'll do it here at my own place where I don't have to consider anyone's opinion other than my own before letting loose on the rant. Although why I should have been mindful of my etiquette when she certainly wasn't mindful of hers is a mystery, but why dump this problem on an administrator who just wanted to start a book discussion. AND, to my way of thinking, had a darn good, original idea for a group in which to do it.
I don't live in Ohio, nor do I have McCain-Palin signs all over my lawn or my car. However, I strongly support the McCain-Palin ticket because for as long as I've been on this earth (and I'm OLD), I've never met a Liberal (I call 'em Fibberals) Ticket I could live with. It's my opinion that Fibbies are forever running around pointing fingers, flapping their jaws, whining, and generally telling HUGE whoppers about the state of the world, who caused it to get that way, and the solutions that will fix it. In this particular election why anyone would be all excited about having a presidential candidate who has 5 minutes experience being a Senator, ties to a domestic terrorist, and has received voluminous illegal campaign funds from the internet when he made an agreement to accept government funds and then reneged on it is beyond my comprehension. Never mind he chose as his running mate a plagiarist who is well known for sticking his foot in his mouth and chomping away on it. In my opinion Joe Biden is the dumbest white man on the face of the earth if you first exclude Michael Moore. BUT, these are my opinions. Would I express them in a book group designed to talk about books that aren't bestsellers but deserve to be read? Would I insult other members of the group before I even knew who they were? Would I assume that everyone else in the group agreed with my opinion no matter how narrow-minded and bigoted it might be? OF COURSE NOT!
Some years ago I was in a hospital in The Beltway. The hospital staff was made up of many different ethnic groups. The patients were the only white faces on the floor where I was being treated. An ambulance driver, a white man, started a conversation with me in which he did one of those nudge, nudge, wink, wink things as he talked about how this hospital only hired "those kinds of people" and how he wouldn't be comfortable allowing "them" to take care of him. I was appalled at his assumption that it was okay to talk to me like this because he assumed I believe the same thing he does. I don't share his racist, bigoted opinions, and I was offended that he thought I did based, I suppose, upon the obvious fact that I'm white.
I felt the same way today as I did way back then when I read that ignorant fool's comments about Christian zealots. Just who does she think she is to assume that it's okay to make remarks about conservatives like that? And by what right does she assume everyone else will agree with her?
I don't want to belong to a group where, before I've even met anyone, the notion is put on the floor that to be conservative is a bad thing. In a further discussion, the Fibbie went on to tell the Administrator that if any of her post had to be deleted, she'd understand. The Administrator responded that she wouldn't be deleting any of the post because the woman was just describing herself and what she believes. To some extent, that's true. She did lay it all out there for the rest of us as to what she thinks. What she did NOT do is consider the time and place where her opinions are appropriate. I enjoy political discourse and debates about ideas, but I won't waste any of my time hanging out in a group with someone who declares herself friendless because she's surrounded by conservatives/Christian zealots. My response to her is, Honey, if you don't have any friends because of politics, you need an attitude adjustment. It's a sad, sad state when politics is the only criteria upon which friendships can be built. In my opinion, it shows a highly refined state of ignorance to declare up front that being surrounded by conservatives makes you friendless. YOU make you friendless, dear... conservatives have nothing to do with it.
It is kind of disappointing, though. I may have enjoyed that group. Then again, maybe not. I don't know what kind of participation Ms Friendless will have in this new group nor do I know what her reading habits are. More to the point, though? I really don't care.
I get my television news coverage from MSNBC. I don't particularly like them; I just cannot stand CNN or Fox, so MSNBC is the least of the triumverate of evils (to me). All day yesterday the coverage on MSNBC centered around the Palin - Biden debate. This televised circus was touted as being the most important vice-presidential debate in US history. Since the vice-presidential debates don't have as long a history (they've only been in existence since 1984) as the presidential debates (the first was held in 1960), to say this debate is the most important debate is a little bit like looking at a storm cloud and deciding the sky is falling. Hyperbole. It's all about the hyperbole. And the media is just loaded with it.
The debate itself was somewhat anticlimactic. As long as Palin didn't spit on the carpet or have a total mental breakdown on national tv, she was going to be judged as having "passed the test". Expectations for her were set THAT low. Occasionally someone would mention that Biden could be a loose cannon with unbelievably stupid, rambling sound bites, but that was done with a "Joe will be Joe" kind of evaluation. I've watched Biden in action for years and concluded long ago that he's a blithering idiot. He is far more impressed with the sound of his own voice than he is with any of the positions he's held in Congress, and when I consider that the guy plagiarized his own past history... well, Joe is only qualified to lead the rats out of Hamelin (or is that Washington, DC) rather than to be vice-president, and a heartbeat away from president, of the US. The media, however, only mentions Joe's incompetence in passing, and it's always with that, "We all know how Joe is but ain't he just so lovable," connotation.
Now the debate is over, and I'm disgusted with the media's take on it. Oh sure, they begrudgingly note that Palin didn't self-destruct, but the sarcasm and exaggerations of her mannerisms has become stronger. Meanwhile, Joe, who told us at the Democratic convention that when he was a child his mother had to repeatedly send him back outside when he came home whupped by the neighborhood bullies with the instruction to "go bloody their noses, Joey", was the one who almost, but not quite, had the on stage meltdown. And it's not the first time he's done this either.
When Joey couldn't think of a way to top Palin's assertion that she understands Main Street with its problems of budget, health care, single parent family situations, and the challenges of raising a special needs child, know what Joey did? He cried. Yep. Got himself all choked up so that it was touch and go there for a moment as to whether he'd even be able to talk, and he raised those puppy dog eyes to the camera to stare down Main Street and assure them that no one needs to tell him what it's like to be a single parent WHILE he tried very hard to manufacture just one lonely tear slowly making its way down his botoxed cheek. He waffled on squeezing out that tear, but he did his all-choked-up routine better than last time he pulled it out of his bag of tricks for the staff on a committee he had to give up because he's now running for vice-prez. THAT time the crowd didn't understand that he was pretending to be overcome with emotion, so they didn't respond the way they should have to his shameless and pathetic grandstanding. Now, can you just imagine if Sarah Palin had done one of those teary, emotional not-quite-but-almost breakdown moments? She'd have been crucified no matter what the context of the little performance. The question most certainly would have been raised whether this was the kind of behavior we expect from our veep. I saw one mention of this intimate Joey moment on MSNBC, and it was explained as the point at which Joey turned the debate to his favor. Apparently up to that point Palin was doing better than Biden, but he almost, but not quite, squeezes out a tear, and that makes him justified to holler, "Never fear, Underdog is here." Puhleeeze. That phoney moment the media fell for hook, line, and sinker was, to me, a get-the-barf-bag time stopper. If only Palin had thought to bring some Kleenex with her so she could offer Joey a tissue along with some gentle advice to pull himself together.
I was interested in what the media would have to say after the debates, and their responses were pretty predictable as was the poll result aired on MSNBC. Joe Q 6-Pack believes Biden won the debate although 33% of respondents to the poll believe it was a tie. Since we have no idea who responded to the poll question of who won, it's impossible to know how reliable those results are. And given the hatchet job the media has been doing on Palin since McCain announced her name as his running mate, is it any wonder she didn't get the public confidence vote stating she won. I think she did win based on what I know of politics and what I have learned to distrust about Biden's footloose and fancy play with statistics and the facts. When Joey told me that 95% of all small businesses in the US earn under $250,000 a year, I knew he was off and running into fantasy land. I didn't expect the media to point that out. But what I also did not expect was the blase way in which MSNBC was willing to write off the debate the day after as totally irrelevant. Joe Scarborough couldn't wait to point out that vice-presidential debates do not elect presidents. That's Scarborough for you -- another firm grasp of the obvious from a guy who seems to want us to believe that he's never been a Republican. EVER. Since Joe served as a Republican Congressman from Florida, he's got some heavy 'splainin' to do about his party affiliation confusion.
So, yesterday that veep debate was THE most important event in political history. Today it's become a meaningless event barely worth the mention. This is according to the media. The place I'm supposed to trust to keep me informed on the latest breaking news and give me accurate details about what's going on in the world. Yeah right. There are two reasons why I cannot vote for Barack Obama. I want to thank Joe Biden for so resoundingly cementing my conviction that he is firmly in place as my second reason.
