July 2008
33 posts
“But anyone who’s studied McCain’s career with any intellectual detachment at all...”
– billmon
“If the job gets done, and your nose is close to its original shape, you call it...”
– Black Jack Justice
WatchRush on The Colbert Report
I particularly liked this question:
You are yet to be inducted in the The Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame. Is there any chance your next album will be called That’s Bullshit?
“I think the American people have had enough of stubbornness and inflexibility in...”
– Randy Scheunemann, McCain adviser and neocon, describing Obama as stubborn as George W. Bush on Iraq. Looks like the McCain campaign has flip-flopped on it’s attack strategy. Last week they were saying Obama was a flip-flopper on Iraq. (via election08)
A little background on Randy Scheunemann from...
iPod Hard Drive Repair | iPodCorrectors →
Anybody have experience with these people? They claim to repair iPod hard drives for $19.95. The sad iPod icon has returned and percussive maintainance no longer works. I need my iPod to last until I can get an iPhone, which won’t happen until the iPhone has at least 32 GB of memory.
“As for offshore drilling, it’s safe enough these days that not even Hurricanes...”
– John McCain
This has been repeated by a number of conservatives. Shockingly, it’s also a steaming pile of horseshit. From the Houston Chronicle:
The quantity and cumulative magnitude of the 595 spills, which were spread across four states and struck offshore and inland, rank these two...
“Things have deteriorated to the point where staffers at People are mystified by...”
– Bob Somerby (The Daily Howler)
“I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the...”
– John McCain, earlier today, once again defending Czechoslovakia. I’m linking to the Wikipedia article on Czechoslovakia because some of the younger readers might not have been born when Czechoslovakia ceased to exist in 1992. Now, we already know McCain wants to drill in ANWR for the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-13) →
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists
Beck
Medeski, Martin and Wood
Leo Kottke
Jimi Hendrix
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Former White House spokesman Tony Snow dies →
Sad. He leaves behind a wife and three children.
McCain in 2007
Q: So no contraception, no counseling on contraception. Just abstinence. Do you think contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV?
Mr. McCain: (Long pause) You’ve stumped me.
Q: I mean, I think you’d probably agree it probably does help stop it?
Mr. McCain: (Laughs) Are we on the Straight Talk express? I’m not informed enough on it. Let me find out. You know, I’m sure I’ve taken a position on it on the past. I have to find out what my position was. Brian, would you find out what my position is on contraception – I’m sure I’m opposed to government spending on it, I’m sure I support the president’s policies on it.
Q: But you would agree that condoms do stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Would you say: ‘No, we’re not going to distribute them,’ knowing that?
Mr. McCain: (Twelve-second pause) Get me Coburn’s thing, ask Weaver to get me Coburn’s paper that he just gave me in the last couple of days. I’ve never gotten into these issues before.
The Week That Should Have Ended McCain's... →
This is the week that should have effectively ended John McCain’s efforts to become the next president of the United States. But you wouldn’t know it if you watched any of the mainstream media outlets or followed political reporting in the major newspapers.
During this past week: McCain called the most important entitlement program in the U.S. a disgrace, his top economic adviser...
“People are allowed to have their own opinions… But they are NOT allowed to have...”
– Overheard on the radio today. (via patrickrhone)
Great quote. It’s from the late Senator Patrick Moynihan.
Dallas County meeting turns racial →
A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.
County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.
Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections “has become a black...
John McCain labels the Social Security system a... →
It’s possible John McCain decided he doesn’t really want to be president after all. It’s a tough, demanding job, and maybe McCain came to the conclusion he’s just not up to the task. It seemed like a good idea to him last year, but maybe he bit off more than he could chew. It’s too late for McCain to bow out, but he can ensure his defeat by saying the most breathtakingly dumb things imaginable.
...
McCain jokes about killing Iranians with... →
squashed:
(via somethingchanged)
Granted, when I read the report I thought the same thing. I even briefly considered whether there was a way to form it into a one-liner that wasn’t tasteless and horrible. I concluded there probably wasn’t. But when you’re a maverick—you don’t need to worry about things like consequences.
I was at a stop light last night and the lady in front of me had a...
"Want some torture with your peanuts?" →
A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser®. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers.
This bracelet would:
take the place of an airline...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-6) →
Medeski, Martin and Wood
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists
Aretha Franklin
Billy Martin & John Medeski
Clark
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
MC Hawkwing - Why Won’t Jesse Helms Just...
Rifle, SWAT gear stolen from trooper's car --... →
The semi-automatic .223-caliber weapon was outfitted with a special holographic sight to enhance rapid-fire accuracy. Also missing was body armor, a SWAT uniform, gas mask and more than $4,000 worth of speed-detection equipment. In the past two years, Orlando police have lost four of the weapons to car burglars. And a submachine gun with a silencer was stolen with two other weapons from an Orange...
The Field: Smart Dissent →
When was the last time that the United States had a president that understood, on such a clear and elaborated level, that dissent is the essence of patriotism?
No president by the name of Reagan, Bush or Clinton valued, or even understood, that central tenet of democracy.
For the last 28 years, at least, in the USA, the executive branch of government has chipped away at the most American of rights...