you can go to Network Solutions where you register domain names and see who the noble Clinton supporters are who own this inspiring site:

clintons ffor mccain
Registrant:
Republican National Committee
310 First Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
US
Domain Name: CLINTONSFORMCCAIN.COM

Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :
Republican National Committee
dns@rnchq.org
310 First Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
US
Phone: 202-863-8500
Fax: 202-863-8851
Record created on 15-May-2008

Always nice to know who your fellow travellers are.  Read more 

[Welcome Sadly No readers. — lambert]

I hate to intrude on the hate-fest, but just wanted to mention that there’s another old, white, non-college-degreed, working class, oh did i mention white? vagina-American who’s supporting Barak Obama in this primary.

Hi! (waves, big grin, track shoes firmly in place.)

If this is too shocking or offensive, somebody drop me an email when St. Hillary (sorry folks, I don’t recognize the ineffable perfection being describe here) puffs up all full of satisfaction and pie and ascends bodily into Heaven, so we can get on with getting the candidate who, like, won the Democratic primary, into the White House.  Read more 

Go to Google

Type in “find Chuck Norris”

hit “I feel lucky”

you’re welcome. :)

Okay, maybe not in electronics sales…or patio furniture…or for that matter Cheetos(tm).

But in blogging? We kick their wussy, Rand-reading, ass, baby. As the Sitemeter stat will show, by the most conservative (ahem) reading possible we get 3,000 hits a day. Now let’s go look at their stats.

Per today’s NYT piece on how Enlightened the Wart has become after their previous attempts to manipulate public opinion flopped miserably, their latest effort is something called CheckOutBlog. Written by the buyers, those folks who determine day in and day out What You Will Have Available To Purchase if you live in a small enough town where all the other stores have been run out by now.

CheckOutBlog, we are told gets

So far, the Check Out receives about 1,000 hits a day, a relatively small figure.

We sneer at these feeble efforts, note that their fathers smelt of elderberries, and will taunt them again as necessary.

Although i’m not sure it would do much good. Of the “Bentonville Blogging Buyers” cited in the story,  Read more 

The Zucchini of Chastisement is one of the longstanding traditions here at Corrente (“longstanding” meaning from at least the year before last, and proven by the fact that it remains No. 1 at Google for this search topic) and was always meant as something of a joke.

The Chastisement of Zucchini on the other hand is a real problem, along with chastisement of tomatoes, watermelons, turnips and those who want to grow them to support the exploding movement to “eat locally.” Turns out—I know this will come as a shock to you—that there are Forces of Edible Evil who do not want you to do this, so they’re—again, brace for a shock—using Congress to tweak the farm subsidy rules to keep farmers from supplying the demand.

Very consise explanation in today’s NYT. The key words are “Farm Flex,” it is a Good Thing and needs to pass.  Read more 

Bring the candle over, dear,It’s very hard to see
Shine so I can see the screen of battery TV

Lights are out all over from Daytona to the Keys
Line failure’s marching through Flor’da.

(to the tune of ’Marching Through Georgia’)

Weird story, just breaking now so I suppose some confusion is unavoidable. Massive storms are hitting the northern part of the state, but this outage is in the south, I wasn’t kidding about the “Daytona to the Keys” line (although they say the Keys are coming back on. I’d like to see where the southernmost power plant is before I believe this story.)

Another cascade effect at any rate. Reminds me of the one a few years ago where literally a tree branch down on a transmission line knocked out the whole Northeast from Ohio to New York and other places.

Weren’t we going to beef up the infrastructure after that? Oh, wait…..  Read more 

UPDATE: Apparently somebody showed some sense (probably the military not the media, but still) and did not let this story get out until the matter was already resolved. The incident, per the current CNN story happened at 8:30 EST this morning. They were picked up, motored into Kabul, and winging off to Turkey before the story hit the wires. Everything else I said still applies though.

This is shaping up to be a fucking movie plot. I hope. That would be the best outcome anyway. Headline banner at CNN:

Snowstorm forces helicopter carrying U.S. Sens. Joe Biden, Chuck Hagel and John Kerry to make an emergency landing in Afghanistan.

Offices (Kerry’s anyway) say that this “forced landing” was indeed due to weather, all aboard are safe and cozy, no gunfire involved, etc.

Guys, guys, guys.  Read more 

There’s something very, very weird about this NYT Lusty McCain and His Busty Lobbyist story. It is not following the proper sequence of Drudge—>Enquirer—>NYPost—>Imus—>NYT “covering the controversy, not the icky insignificant trivial gossip story, heaven forbid”.

This will, my guess, rebound to McCain’s advantage, both among the Viagara cohort, the “he’s too old” arguers, and especially the conservatives who see Liberal Media Persecution everywhere. But personally, I could give two shits. There are enough reasons already out on the table and bragged about—“bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” et tedious cetera—to dislike John McCain serving Huggy Bear Bush’s 3rd term.

I have been raising hell for almost a year now that we didn’t have a candidate in the pipeline to go up agaist the Great Nothingness, Lamar Alexander. It won’t be quite as satisfying as putting a “D” on the seat formerly occupied by Bill “KatKillah!” Frist, (grrr, Harold Ford) but I’ll take Lamar!’s as a consolation prize:

My Fellow Democrats,

After several months of talking to fellow Tennesseans about the presidential race, I know this will be a democratic year. I was reminded several times about the U.S. Senate race after several colleagues asked if I would consider running. After deep consideration and talking with my family, my political mentor Bob Clement, as well as his long time friend and chief of staff Larry Woods; I have decided to enter the race. These friends are confident that I should run, and believe we have the ability to win this race.  Read more 

It’s Mercury retrograde these days you know. I don’t particularly—well, really don’t at all—believe in astrology, but damn if there doesn’t seem to be something to this Mercury retrograde thing. Or maybe we’re just all a tad inclined to hysteria, for entirely good reasons, which leads to miscommunication these days.

At any rate, some good thoughts to help us get through. For one night at least:

Sweet dreams, Moonbats. Drink some sweet wine and sleep under a cover smoothed by your own hands. Dream about a train that pulls into the right station, a bird that tells you the secret that you need to know, a monster who turns into a friend, a kettle of soup that nourishes your Better Self.  Read more 

Forgive me if I am a bit cranky here in west Tennessee this morning, but being woken up by thunder at 3 a.m. will do that to one. The weather here—which continues as I write—is pouring, pounding rain here. By the time it gets to youze all it is expected to be anything from freezing rain to massive amounts of snow.

Go vote/caucus/participate however they do it where you are, now. You damn sure are not gonna want to do it later. Go no later than lunchtime, hear me?

You can send presents (that old iPod/MP3 player with nothing wrong with it but you replaced it with a newer model would be nice; of course liquor is always thoughtful too*) when you see what it looks like at 5 p.m. your time there.  Read more 

The only Holocaust survivor in Congress has died.

I had managed to miss his announcement last month that he was ill and would finish out his term but not run again. Sadly he was one of the Democrats on his committee who actively helped Bush push the Iraq War, although in his particular case I can almost give him a pass on this. Somebody who went through the Holocaust can perhaps be forgiven for being succeptible to an assurance that we were obliged to act against a “tyrant who killed his own people” for their ethnicity.

And it should be noted he was one of a group (of Democrats) who committed civil disobedience in front of the embassy of Sudan a few years ago, in protest of their own war of aggression against an ethnic group.  Read more 

Tennessee voted in Super Tuesday this year, i.e. four days ago. On Wednesday I see a note in the paper that there’s a Democratic Party county meeting on Saturday, today. I thought it was the usual yearly everybody-come-and-pay-your-dues and elect officers ’n’ shit.

Turns out it was a caucus. Now I see people hither and yon getting their bowels in an uproar about how “Democrats are disenfranchising people with Evil Caucuses!!|!” blah blah blah, so I thought I would explain how this works here, since I suspect this is the same procedure used in a lot of states. It probably always has been, but it never got any attention until a year when the candidate wasn’t already determined after South Carolina or so.

So here we go. What the state Dem. Party people do is take the votes as cast last Tuesday and break them down by county.  Read more 

So reports are that Der Mittster is gonna speak to the wingnut-welfare kings of the ConservativePAC and announce that they are all bastard people and should go to hell and die* and he’s quitting and going home.

The bet here: he’ll sing the praises of John McCain, never mention the Huckster’s name, and work out a VP deal. Unite the “moderate” and “real wackaloon-but-not-Jeebusite” wings of the party, etc.

Dogs everywhere don’t know why but suddenly wag their tails and smile.

*okay, that’s what he’d like to say, like “where were you mean people when I was looking for some kind of electoral return on my money, dadgummit??” but he probably won’t really.

As an ex-Edwardsian I remain in a state of great higgledy-piggledy over having to abruptly change my mindset and pick between the two remaining candidates, neither of whom is perfect (well, hell, Edwards had a glitch or two if I am being honest here.)

Here’s the thing though: One of them though is going to be our nominee in the fall and I most abso-goddam-lutely want him or her to win in November.

Therefore I say, vote what’s most important to you. Vote hope. Vote experience. Vote guts, or glory, or grim determination. Vote genitalia, or skin, or heart. Or whatever other bodily part resonates most directly for you.  Read more 

I heard —what show, about what state, I dunno— on the teebee the other day claim that the average age of poll workers in this country is 72. Their ranks have been augmented by one in California:

On Super Tuesday, I will join thousands of other volunteers across the state and serve as an election clerk for the primary. I’ve been assigned to work at the Women’s Club of Hollywood, which is not my polling place but is close enough to home that I can ride my bike there.

Or maybe not. My bike — it has a basket. My basket — it has two bumper stickers. They read: “Peace Out Bush” and “Defend America: Fire the Republicans.” Another rule comes to mind: No electioneering within 100 feet of the polls. I will lock my bike to something that is 101 feet away.

The really sweet part is down towards the end, talking about going to Nevada in ’04 to work for Kerry. It’s late and she’s tired:  Read more 

I’m too depressed to find any links; MSNBC had it first and now CNN’s picked it up.

Son of a bitch. Goddammit. And the “coverage” sounds like it’s his fucking funeral, with everybody praising him to the skies, lauding his saintliness, noting that he won all the debates.

Yeah, the same media that couldn’t mention his name all these months, just noticed that he was the best we had. “Just couldn’t get traction” seems to be the theme. Crowded out by the superstars (who had ten times his money, they don’t mention, because he didn’t take from lobbyists and PACs and all that.)

Goddammit. Why oh why couldn’t he have held on through Tuesday? Do everything by email and free media?  Read more 

Catastrophe! Disaster! O Noes!! Doom!!

And, oh yeah, I can think of a couple of people who ought to get off the campaign trail Monday and, along with their declared supporters, take care of some business of the sort they get paychecks to do.

And hey, congrats to Obama and the people who worked to produce the results he got. The numbers out of SC are mindblowing and credit goes where credit is due. Turnout like that in November and …well, that’s getting ahead of ourselves. But well done, folks.  Read more 

From this morning (Jan. 24 2008) National Park Service Morning Report:

Everglades National Park (FL)
Rangers Remove Python From Visitor’s Car

On Tuesday, January 15th, visitor Ron DeLong stopped his car on the main park road in order to watch a crawling, six-foot-long, exotic Burmese python. As DeLong stepped out of his Ford Explorer, the python began crawling underneath the vehicle and into its engine compartment.

DeLong attempted to grab the python with the curved end of his walking cane, but was unable to stop it.

After several failed attempts to remove the snake, DeLong decided to drive 15 miles to the main entrance station for assistance. When ranger Willie Lopez, wildlife biologist Skip Snow, biologist’s assistant Alex Wolf and firefighter Henry Delvalle checked the Explorer, they found its hood open, with only the tail end of the python visible – the rest of the snake was coiled around various parts of the engine and undercarriage.

Several attempts were made to pull it out through the top of the engine, but failed because the snake tightened its hold on the car. The four responders then discussed their options.

I dare you not to click Read More…  Read more 

There is not much I can add to the words of the not-yet-decayed Minneapolis Star Tribune:

In an effort to help Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, the American Civil Liberties Union is arguing that people who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy.

Craig is asking the Minnesota Court of Appeals to let him withdraw his guilty plea from a bathroom sex sting at the Minneapolis airport. The ACLU on Tuesday filed a brief supporting the Idaho Republican.  Read more 

UPDATE: I suppose, being as the debate is now over, that it comes as no surprise to anybody who watched that Kucinich lost the appeal. Apparently the decision didn’t come down until barely an hour before it was supposed to start. The regrettable details can be found here because I did promise to update.

(I still think John held his own. Only mentioned the word “millworker” once that I heard, which is an improvement. :) Dammit he’s wrong on the no-new-nukes thing but we’re grownups, we know that even our favorite candidate isn’t going to agree with us on every single thing.)

TMP is reporting that..well, let’s just roll the tape here:

NBC News was planning on cutting tonight’s Democratic debate in Nevada down to the top three candidates — but a judge’s ruling may just force them to expand it to four.

Last night, Clark County District Court Judge Charles Thompson ordered that NBC include who Dennis Kucinich, who they had originally invited but then later excluded, or he would issue an injunction to stop the whole debate. NBC is appealing the order.

To which I of course say Huzzah, hurrah, YAY, whoooooopeeeee! and similar expressions of unbridled glee.

Not because I think our favorite elf is going to stage an amazing surge and win Nevada, but think  Read more 

I will send money to John Edwards again the next time I hear him speak and the word “millworker” does not pass his lips.

Nor the story of the girl who died because the insurance company denied her liver transplant, UNLESS he adds (1) the profit margin of Cigna Insurance, which I saw quoted as $21 billion last year but would have to look up to confirm or (2) the words “Death By Spreadsheet,” which frankly I am astonished Elizabeth has not made him do already.

Oh, and the veterans sleeping under bridges? God bless ya John you’re the only one talking about them…but there are people in this little thing called “foreclosure” and more every day fearing that they’re gonna be next, howzabout you add a few lines about that ol’ Shitpile (tm Atrios)?  Read more 

Atrios has a post up detailing the woes over at that fine example of upstanding people across the aisle who we need to bipartisanly reach out to, RedState .com.* They’re begging for money to do a site rebuild, and they can’t do it with Scoop because

The online left loves Scoop. Unfortunately, there weren’t really any conservative Scoop developers out there to help us.

Okay, if you weren’t already, you may start to giggle now. And we have only started on the voyage of hilarity here. Step right this way…  Read more 

Josh at TPM has got a new Christianist Dog Whistle catch from Hucklebee’s campaign, and I think he’s underplaying it. It sounds simple to the point of simplistic (like a lot of Hucky’s stuff) but it is a deep and foul pit indeed once you dig into it.

The word is “Vertical.” Josh has a screen shot with the quote “I think the country is looking for somebody who is vertical, who is thinking, Let’s take America up and not down.”

So what is a “vertical thinker” anyway? Horizontal brings to mind Fred Thompson, but resist that thought and think in terms of society, and communities, and how we organize ourselves and agree to follow certain rules: i.e., government.

The short? “Vertical” means that rules—which is to say laws—come down from God Above, and all we can, and should, and must do is obey them. “Horizontal” thinking by contrast is what us old time freethinkers thought was the social contract, agreements, the coming together of people to agree, one person one vote, on what the laws would be.

Not in Huck’s world.  Read more 

When you get a blessing from a witch, open your heart to it:

Dear Moonbats,

While you sleep tonight, may the brownies fix everything broken in your home. May the dryads mend your walls while the nymphs fix every inch of your plumbing. May the ancestral fairies and hosts and worgamaths of your DNA repair all the cells of your sleeping body. May you wake up feeling extremely “right” even if you can’t figure out exactly why.

Ah Hecate, may the stars sing you to sleep as well. And all of us in the regions in which it is getting unexpectedly, suddenly cold tonight would do well to leave out an offering for those nymphs of plumbing. What do nymphs like in the way of gratuities, anyway? They never struck me as acquisitive beings, so nothing material comes to mind.  Read more