Jobber of the Week

http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/696/ dsfkls;fa;g;jkahsd;jgg McCain, you are REALLY selling out your meaning of "ready on day one" with this trash. On the other hand, PolitiFact was bitched out for being big-city, big-spender, elite, me first country last media types; just for asking why:

His whole character is spun off from his 2003-2004 era WWE.com columns rambling about how Dubya = Troops = Good, whenever he wsn't calling all of us geeky outsiders who can't book a good match because we've never been in one. We reached Peak JBL at the first ONS with his speech about smarks hopping on instant messaging and calling each other hardcore, and it's just been a slow and steady decline ever since.

I see them as equals unless there's a gimmick involved. One Night Stand and Cyber Sunday need to go. Cyber Sunday especially since it's only two weeks after No Mercy and there's just not enough time to book up a card well in two weeks.

Seems the McCain people screwed up the bigscreen last night, using a photo of Walter Reed Middle School when they meant to use the hospital. That was why he had a green background at the start of his speech. The hospital would have actually made sense, McCain wanted to reform the hospital when it was revealed what condition vets were in there. A google image search shows that the hospital is really a very pretty building, but using it as a background is almost questionable since it has columns. And according to what we heard during the DNC, columns are the most socialist of load-bearing support beams or something.

Don't know. When they had the 2004 tour, they edited the video to include anti-Bush stuff. Now whatever the band is today is suing them to stop. I don't think Sammy has any say over it. He wrote the lyrics, so he should have a say. He doesn't have copyright, so it's not up to him. He may have moral rights but I'm not sure that has any say here (moral rights are usually invoked when copyright holders of an a work in the way it's creator feels sullies his/her reputation) and those kinds of rights are heavily limited in the US anyway.

No, I was thinking of Waukegan. My Dad works at a company that has the majority of it's operations there. And I'd love to live even in the distant suburbs of a large city than on a fucking island of a mid-sized, mostly low income city like Vegas. So long as I'm close enough to a bus line that I can get a ride to the station and then take Metra into the city, I'm set. This town offers nothing if you aren't a tourist. Locals can't really join in the fun because the prices are amped up to out of towners coming in to blow a fortune over two days, and most concerts and other fun things to do think we're not far away enough from either LA or Phoenix to do a show here. I love the energy and electricity of a city. 1,000+ft architectural marvels, subways, museums and theatre and zoos and culture, that kind of stuff just turns me on. I'd live in NYC as I love genuine art deco from the 30s-40s as well, but the sheer size of the place is maybe too big. Our city is not really a city, it's basically a bunch of suburbs that serve as like the dumpy "do not enter, employees only" section of the Disneyland that is the Strip hotel corridor everybody comes to see.

I wish I lived in Waukegan (the city, not the jail.) Don't know. When they had the 2004 tour, they edited the video to include anti-Bush stuff. Now whatever the band is today is suing them to stop. I don't think Sammy has any say over it.

He keeps using Right Now when Van Halen keeps asking him over and over to stop.

I'm watching post-convention stuff on CNN. They're talking to a woman in a "Drill Here Drill Now" hat with a big Alaska on it. The guy tells her McCain doesn't support that. She basically begs for a flip-flop. This kind of reminds me of this whole energy problem and what we're going to have to eventually accept: What is politically popular won't work. All options that will work won't be politically popular. It's going to require a commitment from politicians, and maybe some taxing and spending, but the people simply have to be dragged kicking and screaming by their government into the fuel of the future. The reason these people are so short-sighted as to simply want more oil is because that's what they already use. The problem hybrids, the GOP's much vaunted hydrogen car, and all these other ideas face is that you'll have to buy a car that supports it to actually use it. Incredibly lazy people would simply prefer to find some way that they could keep burning fossil fuels, trade deficits and environmental concerns be damned, because being able to keep driving their 2002 Honda Accord is more important than either country or world. It's a lot like the transition to digital TV and how many people simply were too fucking cheap to invest in anything more than what they needed right now, which is why so many "HD-Ready" HDTVs were made that contained plain' ol analogue tuners instead of the digital ATSC tuners to actually pick up the 2009 signals. The government eventually had to give the fuck up on the market evolving the consumers and just start subsidizing boxes to allow people to keep watching TV if they wouldn't buy their own way to the future. We can re-use elements of current cars in future cars, of course. But chances are if we want to get off foreign oil, we're going to have end-of-life our cars early for economic reasons, and classic car ownership is probably going to become an expensive hobby. Nobody is going to look forward to that.

The dude in the "Iraq veterans win the war" with the You Can't Win an Occupation / John McCain Votes Against Veterans sign still got so much camera time. Some of the screencaps of him are funny, as there's more typical Wall Street looking guys in front of him who seem to not care that he's there.

Not sure how that's related to the election, but that's still awesome and way more respectable than that douche in Arizona that some people like to hold up on a pillar.

W C W! W C W!

There's a town hall style debate and he's very strong on those. The foreign policy debate could go either way, candidates aren't supposed to attack each other as much as answer the question (though they tend to say "I'll answer that but first..." and then attack until their time is up) but if he does that too much and doesn't answer any questions because he keeps eating up his time attacking then it looks bad. The economy forum, he's going to get nuked on. The VP forum, he's probably going to get nuked on. He has to work uphill to make it a draw.

No, I kind of laugh. If it gives you any clue, I'm amused by the site "Stuff White People Like," and can identify with some of it, but don't visit it very often.

Left-leaning guy on PBS: "He's using phrases like failed administration and do-nothing. This is not his best speech, he made a better speech when endorsing Bob Dole in 1996. If you read this speech not knowing what it was, you'd think it was delivered by an insurgent candidate going against an entrenched incumbent who has been in power for twelve years." The right-leaning guy agrees. Not an apology. Just maybe some thinking about why that is. I mean, every other right-winger at least does the "we ended slavery" argument and insists that the party is a "big tent." This kind of like, made the GOP look like what Democrats mock it as. This is the GOP we Democrats have been waiting for: pretty much everyone but rich and frighteningly religious driven white people have left the party.

PBS guy gives the delegate demographics: 93% white, 5% hispanic, 2% black. Big Tent Party!

What the fuck is this bullshit. There were several U-S-A chants at the DNC, and Yes We Can chants at the RNC. That was like the most transparent of veiled attempt of saying Dems aren't patriotic.

They had this awesome enormous TV screen that I hoped they would do so much more with, besides just constantly waving a flag loop. The fireworks are the most original thing they did with that big motherfucker. Palin always does the beauty queen wave of waving with your wrist forwards and your fingertips pointing back. She needs to learn the Queen Elizabeth II wave where you cup your hand and then move it like you're using it as an ice cream scoop. And now, Barracuda by Heart. A song by a Canadian folk rock band that came from the Vietnam era. Kind of, er, not a McCain song really.

"They offered me a chance to leave torture. I said no. I was tortured harder than ever before for the next four years." "Please trust in my judgement."

He just lied about Obama and nuclear. Obama called for nuclear power in his speech.

YOU IDIOTS UNLESS YOU'RE SO FILTHY RICH YOU'LL GET A BIGGER TAX CUT UNDER OBAMA

This kind of thing happens time to time (see: Buchanan's culture war speech.) While conventions are generally a showboating display for party ideology, this convention has been VERY negative. The Democrats were quite courteous compared to the things like Mitt Romney's "fuck everybody who can't afford to take care of themselves" speech last night. Everyone on CNN bitched about how the DNC sucked and how it was lacking in attacks on McCain and even I thought it was ridiculous how everyone called McCain a friend and a good man before they disagreed with him. Even Obama said he's not dumb or evil, he just doesn't understand the situation from his perspective. And this convention has stood in contrast with all the Haves in the room talking about working to keep things from the Have Nots because grrrr government and grrrr taxes. This is very much a white plutocracy on display.

Every time McCain talks about hardships, foreclosures, and making ends meet, the crowd chants USA USA USA to down it out because they don't want to hear it because everyone in this room is wealthy enough that they haven't had to make any change to their lifestyle. They probably believe that "mental recession" bullshit. It's like LIM on The Pit the other week saying that the economy isn't that bad because HE'S been able to buy several houses over the past eight years.

I saw his rally today on CNN.com's live streaming thingy, which is worth downloading the plugin for really. Better than CNN-TV. "People ask, are you angry with what they said? Because they were so savage in their attacks. I'm not angry, I mean, what else are they gonna do? This is the same thing they do every four years. I've been called worse things on the basketball court, so what they said couldn't bother me. But they did a lot of talking about John McCain, and Sarah Palin, and me. But you know who they haven't been talking much about? You."