2012 archive
Hold-up Hold-up 0
Heh.
It will be a challenge to bust the bra thieves . . . .
Strange Creatures from Another World 0
Dick Polman imagines an American attempting to explain the Electoral College to a visitor from another planet. A snippet:
(Alien) “Your college is not very intelligent. It is simpler to choose a leader by counting populace votes and calculating who has received more – as it is done in most zones on your planet.”
(American) “Don’t you dare dis America! We reserve the right to choose the person who gets fewer votes. We’ve done it four times already. We even did it 12 years ago – wait, why are your heads glowing?”
. . . leading one to wonder, just who is the strange creature in this conversation?
Dustbiters 0
Mastering the universe no more–these banks are blanked:
Well, It’s Better than Watching Fox News 0
Mr. Nuts, a tuxedo cat who shares a home in Fremont with Michael Ostrofsky and his family, is known for his ability to predict outcomes in perhaps the most ignoblest of methods.
Forget scientific polls and margins of errors, Mr. Nuts makes his predictions in the litter box. If he picks yours, your fate is sealed, and not in a good way.
You can clean a litter box. You can’t clean Fo-oh, never mind.
Stray Thought 0
The vitriolic lies that Republicans are injecting into my answering machine are quite aback-taking.
It is a flood of Sandian proportions.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Danial Ruth stands awed by Mitt the Flip’s “audacity of mendacity” and the only flop Mitt hasn’t flipped. A nugget:
It was not that long ago Mitt Romney pollster Neil Newhouse offered up a rare moment of candor.
After being confronted by reporters covering the Joe Isuzu campaign with numerous inaccurate, false and misleading statements being dished up by the candidate, Newhouse responded by declaring the Romney team was ”not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.”
At least on this point, the Romney campaign has been consistent.
Read the rest.
Mitt’s FEMA Flip-Flop 0
Meanwhile, over at Romney the Liar, Joseph is having trouble keeping his head above the flood of lies . . . .
“She Asked for It” 0
That’s how a Cali school district is defending itself in a civil suit by a woman who, when she was in middle school 18 years ago, was systematically sexually abused by male and female teachers.
The girl was twelve at the time.
Like the honchos at Penn State and in the Catholic Church, the bigwigs in the school district ignored complaints and covered up the conduct while it was going on.
(Much more at the link.)
This is comparable to the priest who claimed that little boys were seducing Catholic priests.
The school district and its lawyers claim that this is a “necessary” legal tactic.
These are not nice people.
A Public Service 0
PoliticalProf reads David Brooks so you don’t have to.
If you want a clear look at David Brooksian “centrism,” check out Driftglass.
Stay Classy, Republicans 0
Celebrating their Southern heritage:
The contraption, which also showed effigies of a judge and law enforcement officials, was reportedly displayed outside the Wayne County Public Library on Ash Street, a one-stop early voting site.
A. Legal-Sized Paper 0
Q. What creation of lawyers has annoyed more persons for a longer time more persistently than any other?
Plus ca Change, Southern Style 0
Excerpt from the interview with Chuck Thompson:
If you strip the Republican politics of this bogus facade of party colors, it’s really the same game of division that’s . . . been practiced by Southern reactionaries, that’s the same today as the disastrous and fraudulent politics that split the country in 1861 and, in significant ways, has kept it apart every since. It’s a game of obstruction, a game of division and resistance . . . .
“Right Turn on Red after Stop” 0
That’s after stop, as in “after stop.” The Mercury-News’s Mr. Roadshow reports:
Bully for them, says I.