Being not so flush as Coyote, I would like to put up a matching contribution of $150. So please give so we can get another $300 to the blog that everybody hates and nobody reads, or everybody reads and nobody hates or inside out/vice versa or however that formula goes. Read below the fold...
So last week when my giddy facebook friends would post pictures like this:
I would assuage my guilt by saying something like "That's awesome! Obviously he must have been dissatisfied with the lack of immediacy in drone killing, and had them whip up some hand held laser blasters!".
So the magical Obama is bringing the gayness on his flying unicorn? Yeah, it wasn't the hard work of thousands.
You know a meme has achieved success when its targets adopt it:
Critics of tax credits for wind energy projects are intensifying their push to kill the incentive with a study that calls it “rent seeking” by an established industry that doesn’t need the subsidy.
Apart from the snark about how much we will relish the rejection of Obama Corporatist Democrats, I think it is time to have an honest, open discussion of what the reality of a President Romney really will be.
Don't kid yourself, it won't be the same as four more years of Obama, and we are definitely staring it in the face.
A thousand monkeys, stabbing at keys since the invention of the typewriter, could never come up with a sentence as tongue-floppingly dumb as this one found in comments here:
As for the public input, that was already taken care of in 1849, if you weren't there, then shut your yap!
Submitted by okanogen on Thu, 09/13/2012 - 10:57am
What point is there in an September/October Surprise if you are too incompetent to ride the wave? Just like the over-achieving high school dweeb he comes across as, Romney tried to lead a phony, saber-rattling charge against "weak Obama" but nobody was interested in running behind him. Comical. He looks like a fool, and nobody wants to be lead by a fool. As I guessed, the GOP is throwing Romney under the bus, and it didn't even take a month to happen. Read below the fold...
This article is fascinating reading as regards the rightward Overton Window "success" of the last 45 years. People talk about turning the clock back to the Clinton years, but really we should turn the clock back further, to the early Nixon years. We didn't know how good we had it. Read below the fold...
There were energetic shouts of “Aye!” and “Nay!” as a Puerto Rican party functionary—Zoraida Fonalledas, the chairwoman of the Committee on Permanent Organization—took her turn at the main-stage lectern. As she began speaking in her accented English, some in the crowd started shouting “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” Read below the fold...
Submitted by okanogen on Fri, 07/27/2012 - 12:03pm
I hope this gorgeous video makes your day brighter.
The Dukes of the Stratosphear were an XTC experimental project, using 1960's period equipment and instruments. Tom McKeon is the animator and did this for fun as a vanity project. Read below the fold...
