Jobber of the Week

This thread was just brought to my attention, so scuze me while I step in here and own the room:

Yeah dude you totally can't get that anywhere officially so they're just trying to stifle the message.

I've sunk way too many hours into Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour for the DS. Like any YGO game it wraps a thin RPG veneer around a series of card battles, but it's one of those games where you can come up with challenges for yourself after you're done. Can I win 15 battles in a row without a loss?

There's a lack of context in that story. Biden was responding to someone who was giving him hell and yelling about how Hillary should have won instead. What're you supposed to do? You apologize, you ignore them and appear like an ass, or you say "hell no I'm better than she is" and look like an ass AND an egotist. There wasn't any way he could get out of that situation and be complimentary to himself.

Eric, check out the Charlie Rose interview with Brian Schweitzer where he goes over energy. Jump to 9 minutes in: See, this is part of why I wanted this guy as Obama's VP. That, and because I wanted to see GOP heads explode when they found out Obama's VP choice knows Arabic.

Dude, you're asking for proof that he thinks Obama is a bad politician? What? People tend to make opinions of people. Let him have his. Chances are, before Bush got into office you thought he was bad then, too.

Don't you feel like a lonely man in Toronto? Most people I know there are in the "I would never vote for someone who would promise to not raise taxes" / "paying taxes is just my patriotic duty" kind of mindset to some degree or another. Of course, the guy I know who actually lives in the real city and not in the burbs doesn't vote because everything's swung so hard to one way or another that it'd be pointless, according to him. I know Harper's is the least transparent government of just about all time up there. Strict discipline regarding staying on message and simply not saying anything if it's not your place to is kept to 2003-2006 era GOP standards. That anti-P2P bill they spent six months creating FUD about before just throwing it out there to die at the end of Parliament didn't help matters either. Who were they trying to fool?

The secessionist husband (who some people try and call "off limits") blows my mind. I mean, "the people in Alaska knew of it and still voted them first family" doesn't cut it, because Alaska is so insular that even the newspapers refer to the rest of the country as Outside (and a popular bumper sticker is "We don't give a damn how they do it Outside.") The whole taxes/expenditures thing is pretty much a moot issue because that state is just swimming in cash, and the places she does try to flaunt her conservative credentials she's flat out lying (bridge, chef, etc.) Most Alaskans approve of her getting rid of that plane, but it wasn't just the governor's plane, it was a prisoner transport plane to somewhere Outside because the state's prisons are full. I'm convinced that Alaskans are like Californians but completely rural and with an even bigger superiority complex.

He's like, some kind of famous war hero or somethin'?

What wave, precisely? Because I've been interested in this race since it was just exploratory committees, and having researched the top three candidates Obama and Edwards had much more thorough policy information available for reading than Hillary did. And, although I give Edwards credit for pushing the other candidates to having a spine on populist issues, I'm kind of glad he's not the nominee right now.

But Palin's popularity is an effect of the press. The lack of information on her stimulated the press to talk about her incessantly. They've played her hockeymom/ebay/pitbull/bridge/mooseburger act on heavy rotation. Really, it's the press' fault. It's not like when she was announced, that a ton of people said 'oh yeah, her! I like her!" They said, "who?" If you think "gotcha" is journalism, you need classes in journalism. "Gotcha" is the old routine most associated with Tim Russert, where you find 20 year old comments and throw them at someone's face and then just ask them to react. Real questioning is the kind of thing you don't see here very often, but it still happens from time to time like what Campbell Brown has been doing recently in that Tucker Bounds smackdown, or when Chris Matthews took that shill to task about "what did Chamberlain do?" and the guy couldn't answer, because he was using a talking point without knowing anything about what it meant. Unfortunately, you only see fits and starts of journalism on the cable networks, the Sunday shows are a little bit better, and BBC is actually good about making people back up what they say but being foreign-based media their ability to get guests even for news they broadcast domestically is really limited (although they did get Bush last year.) Kind of like how you rarely see an exclusive interview on the NewsHour or in USA Today or on NPR, because their audience is somewhat more limited.

Posting this here and elsewhere: Remember when I said the charges of media bias and sexism would only go so far before the media stopped taking it so seriously and began ignoring it, and the pushing of the message bites them in the ass? Yes, there may be one or two deranged Hillary dead-enders out there willing to believe Obama called Sarah Palin a pig. But I think there are many, many more "ordinary Americans" who've heard the expression several thousand times and have no idea what the fuss is about. --New Republic McCain once campaigned on the idea that the war on terrorism is the “transcendent” issue of our time. Now, he’s stooping to cheap advertising that would be condemned as trivial and misleading in a state legislative race. Boy, do I miss the old John McCain and wonder what became of him. --WaPo I just can't wait for the moment when John McCain--contrite and suddenly honorable again in victory or defeat--talks about how things got a little out of control in the passion of the moment. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig. --TIME It seems to me we should have one rule. If Obama was calling Palin a pig, then McCain was calling Hillary Clinton one. If McCain wasn't, then Obama wasn't. --ABC They tried their hand too far, and now the honeymoon is over. The next few days should be interesting.

One of the things the reporters travelling to Alaska for obvious reasons have noticed is that gas costs a LOT there, so I'm not surprised with what that guy is saying.

Article claims it's a Detroit burb, and the suggestion is that a lot of the foreclosed are black. You know the area well?

Colorado and Virginia are swing states this year. North Carolina might be but that sort of swings around. Part of the reason the Dems held their convention in Denver was to basically flood the state in volunteers and get a ton of canvassers.

Not sure I agree with that, since you could easily have illegal immigrants swing an election and then nobody knows about it until it's too late. On the other extreme, behold, the most brazen voter suppression tactic of all time.

It's not new voters that are the problem. In fact, people who registered recently are probably interested in voting. And this race has shown about 90% of registered voters are following this. "Likely voters" is people who voted in 2004, which is pretty shit sad because it leaves out a lot of people. Kerry lit few asses on fire, and Bush and McCain pander to different groups. The problem has been YOUNG voters. People in 18-25 register and then kind of get lost in the Xbox while polling day comes and goes. Now, a few things can fix that. For instance, same day registration and early voting here in Nevada. However, the youth vote has always been that mythical unicorn that people hope to see but never shows up, at least it HAS been until Obama appeared and was like "oh yeah, I have one of those in my backyard."

In the case of Ethan they took a hot dude and made him look plain. I don't know why they did that. I never watched the original series, but everyone who is supposed to be under 25 looks and acts like they were on the cast of Power Rangers a few years ago. In fact, it kind of reminds me of the non-karate portions of early Ranger episodes stretched out to a full sized show, with Lucille Bluth thrown in for good measure.

So long as they have some sort of graphic showing you who is on top, it should work. I don't want to see this type of match again in a long time, and when it does come back it needs to be an Extreme Rules scramble, because garbage is the only way an idea this stupid could be any fun.

Again, just to remind you, all it does is add language that says "Marriage is between a man and a woman in the state of California." It does nothing to address the Supreme Court interpretation of the state constitution that both types of couples should be treated equally. So the minute you define marriage as an unequal status, nobody is married anymore. Granted, that won't happen overnight, but the progressive groups are certain to push the issue as hard as they can to make the voters eat their crow, and the conservative groups will try to fight back but simply don't have precedent on their side. I think this whole thing will become an angry wedge issue again if 8 passes, but if it fails it won't be perfect for EVERYONE but 1/7th of the country's population will see that you can have legal gay marriage without being smited by God or everyone's children doing blow and barebacking each other.

Ah, well, I was just curious. I see no problems so long as churches are allowed to choose to not wed any couple they choose to, and they still have that right. Amusingly, as a side effect, Prop 8 could wind up nullifying everyone's marriges if passed. It doesn't address the core of the court argument for marriage, which is that the state constitution requires gay and straight couples be treated the same, regardless of what that treatment is. So you could wind up with everyone having a "civil union".

I AM A REAL AMERICAN GRIPE FOR THE RIGHTS OF EVERY MAN

Has the world ended since gay marriage started over there or something?

Yeah, California's always got it's proposition system to make voting worthwhile. You get no real say on the Presidency, but you get to try and stop the state from sending itself further into the hole. 1: Yes 2: No 3: No 4: What the fuck *NO* 5: Yes 6: Lean no, could go either way 7: No (looks nice, but a trojan horse, see below) 8: Aw hell no! 9: No 10: No (again, see below) 11: No Please vote no on prop seven, the renewable energy thing. Yes, renewables are cool and I support them. But if we require by law that all of Cali's electric companies be 20% renewable in only TWO YEARS (and it's more like one realistically) we're going to bankrupt the utilities and be exactly where we were when Enron gouged them into poverty years ago. 10 is another green initiative, this time giving money to people who buy green cars. I think the price of gas is doing plenty to market Chevy Volt, so there's no reason for the state to write congratulatory checks to people who could afford to buy a cutting-edge car. I don't mind government subsidizing development of this kind of tech, but subsidizing the sales of it is too much.

Libs really need a plan that's quicker to action than "wait for Justin Trudeau to get into politics." Posts like the one above me really say why. The libertarian anti-tax attitudes of America will seep into Canada with enough time.