Jobber of the Week

"It's not about talkin' pretty, it's about talkin' straight." Is that a gay jab?

I was watching BBC America's news show, and the anchor was like "they're singing the national anthem back there" and then kept on talking to set up a video package. Rather odd since at the Olympics they were particularly touchy about not talking over anyone's national anthem, and if they had to they'd stand while they do so. But then again it didn't sound like a particularly good rendition.

I've only resumed posting here in recent days. Don't get after me for not knowing Czech is using a bunch of funny symbols for a username.

It's whoever the mod with the Palin avatar is, since doing a "find this user's posts" search results page plays the theme, too. It'll pass on the next page unless s/he does it again there, too.

PolitiFact is catching up with last night's BS. FactCheck is still running behind. Some guy supported Huckabee's claim that Palin got more votes than Biden's Presidential bid did, and they have given it their "pants on fire" rating for being blatantly untrue:

I'd like to say "At Home" put his foot in his mouth with this line: This is the big difference between Palin and Clinton: Like Obama, Clinton has moved beyond her minority status. Obama has not run on "LOOK AT ME I'M BLACK THIS SO HISTORIC I'M A FUCKIN' BLACK MAN HERE LOOK AT ME DANCE." Likewise, Hillary Clinton has a reputation for a tough attitude, pantsuits, and rejecting the gender role. Her reputation as an 'ice queen' comes from talking to men the same way men talk to other men. Even Republicans will tell you that if you are a man she will talk with you like she is a man. Hillary has rarely played the sexism card. I know she did in an ABC debate when she was being double-teamed by Edwards and Obama, but rarely with "talking heads." There is simply very little feminine in her choice of language. This is contrast to Palin and her Mom Of The Year act, and her clever phrases like "put down the Blackberry, and pick up the breast pump." Can you imagine Hillary Clinton making light talk about her breast pump? Probably not.

True, that. I just see the most people with bad dispositions in that part of the city. Middle-class guys are inherently suspicious of working-class people who look like they have little to lose. On the other hand, I've had quite few friendly conversations with people there that I wouldn't want to randomly pass by at night as well.

I think that's because even the ultra-partisan crowd at the RNC realized "Holy shit, Mitt Romney talking derisively about East-coast elites is just too ironic and hypocritical to support, even for us!" I think the best part is when he spoke against government-sponsored healthcare, when he ran on giving Massachusetts government-sponsored healthcare.

From the teleprompter. Yep, they phonetically wrote out the big people words so it wouldn't overwhelm her.

Friday, September 26, 2008 at the University of Mississippi's Gertrude C. Ford Center in Oxford, Mississippi[7], moderated by Jim Lehrer, executive editor and anchor of The NewsHour on PBS. This debate will focus on foreign policy and national Security.[8] VP Debate: Thursday, October 2, 2008 at Washington University in St. Louis' Field House Gymnasium in St. Louis, Missouri[12], moderated by Gwen Ifill, senior correspondent on The NewsHour and moderator and managing editor of Washington Week on PBS.[13] Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at Belmont University's Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tennessee[9], moderated by Tom Brokaw, special correspondent (and former evening news anchor) for NBC News. This debate will have a town-hall meeting format. Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at Hofstra University's Hofstra Arena in Hempstead, New York[10], moderated by Bob Schieffer, CBS News chief Washington correspondent and host of Face the Nation. This debate will focus on domestic and economic policy.[11]

This is what Palin and Giuliani were mocking. They were making fun of a young man's decision "to serve a cause greater than himself," in the words of John McCain. They were, therefore, mocking one of their candidate's favorite messages. (...) Perhaps La Pasionaria of the Northern Slope didn't know this when she read the words they gave her. But Giuliani--a profoundly lapsed Catholic, who must have met more than a few religious folk toiling in the inner cities--should have known. ("I don't even know what that is," he sneered.") What a shameful performance. What a Community Organizer Does Reccomended read.

Jesus christ, "media sexism" won't work because the media isn't sexist by and large. If it is, it isn't sexist AGAINST women. They can do like Dick Cheney and say they won't talk to "unfriendly" papers, but they aren't going to hole her up and say "nuh-uh! None of you get to talk to her 'cuz yer ALL sexist!"

If you think that site is rich, read their forums.

Democrats or PUMAs? Because there's a difference. The primary left a lot of Republicans registered as Democrats thanks to Rush's OpChaos and similar thinking, and some of those "Clinton supporters" are really Republicans trying to kick the Dems in the shins and weaken their position. Nobody on the HillaryIs44.com site is an being intellectually honest. ..And sorry for posting twice in a row.

They're treating executive experience like it's some sort of trump suit, and the tiniest amount of it is more important than any other type of experience. Who cares about acres of foreign policy experience? I have an inch and a half of executive experience, and that's what matters! I wrote this on the other board, but since you don't go there, I'll paste it here which is something I don't do often, but oh well. And I was going to do it anyway because I wanted to bounce it off this crowd and see what you think. They don't have many eyeballs right now anyway:

It takes me 90 minutes to get from this house to the Strip and airport and stuff. It takes about 70 minutes to do so during the routine traffic hours. Which happens at all hours of the day since the Strip is one of the few business sectors of the world that is running 24 hours and only has a three-hour "down time" from 4AM to 7AM. Have you ever seen what the freeway looks like when Mandalay Bay, MGM, Bellagio, Luxor, NYNY, Treasure Island (all of those are the same company) have their employees shift change AT THE SAME TIME? Not to mention that freeway is the same way in/out to Los Angeles and is also popular with tourists, cabs to the airport, and so on. Our bus system also has a number of 24 hour routes. I just don't ride after dark because I'm white, the layout of this town often sends me riding into the "black part of town", and I fear gangbangers and other bad guys. It's not the bus that's the problem, it's the bus stops, which are often just a bench sitting out there in the darkness. If I lived in NYC or Toronto or something that is less racially segregated by giant freeways this wouldn't be a problem.

Well, I'm going to bed. I hope to wake up next morning and find out that Rudy was recruited to be Klingon Emperor for his warlord speech.

The old farts that run my homeowners association and guard-gate their blocks while ignoring those of us who don't live in the big mansions in the middle of the district, can they run for President too now? The HOW DARE THEY stuff got on my nerves because i don't need a lesson in what is and what isn't chauvinist from a guy who locked his wife out of the house and fucked his mistress until the wife got a judge to let her back in.

They used the term community organizer like it was just a resume lie on his application to Baskin Robbins. It really had that "n-- did nothin' but smoke crack all day and needed prior experience so he wrote 'community organizer'" vibe going. Fuck this uppity dude and his 'hope'!

Nothing else was, so take a guess.

hahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahaaahahahahahhahahahah Pat Buchanan, who loves Palin, because Palin loves Pat Buchanan, calls her "the Republicans' Obama." But then he warns, "don't let her talk too much to any media people. Don't let anyone stick a microphone in her face and ask What About Georgia?" Chris Matthews, who still has some shred of sense left after going into orbit for Obama last week, asks how you can actually put her on a stage and talk to thousands of people without even a local media person asking her any questions. Noonan suggests you tell the press that you won't talk to them because they're sexist. Yeah, your average Joe watching TV won't react negatively to that at all.

Keep in mind that Obama will keep up the war in Afghanistan, though. But still, even if you fall in that upper brackets, isn't it better to buy our wars by taxes rather than borrowing more and more from China?

It's kind of funny because the pregnant daughter is such a red herring distraction. By focusing on that, you lose that she ruled that town with an iron fist and left them mired in debt. If you wanted to, you could say they deliberately threw that out there because they know sex sells. But then, first of all they'd call you a sexist awful bastard. And secondly, we know they simply aren't thinking that many moves ahead or else they would not have chose her. Romney bitched about everything that happened from 1980 until now, unaware that Democrats have only had the White House for eight of those twenty-eight years. Don't totally discount the passion with which people hate taxes, even if paying taxes would actually solve some of their problems. That's one of the things I love about Canada, people see paying taxes as a sort of a patriotic duty that's responsible because they see tangible benefits for their taxes. There's a libertarian wild streak in this country that causes a lot of people to hate maintaining any kind of community beyond their own front yard. I hear conservatives talk about how they broke from the British Empire because they didn't want to pay taxes. You would think representation had NOTHING to do with it. If you're one of those people who think the framers put "under god" in the pledge, well then you're going to say stupid shit like this.

Well, I'm ready to vote for Fake Sarah Palin right now!