God of Biscuits

In my ongoing search for an adequate coffee house here in Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA), I asked my mom to stop by a place called Bakehouse Bakery & Cafe; my sister-in-law Karen—one of the best story-tellers EVAR, by the way—told me about it: she remembered that they had free WiFi and therefore I could conclude they were a place which welcomed laptoppers.

It is awash in orange formica, American Youth and absolutely no vibe as a place one might get serious work done in. As I was standing at the coffee counter awaiting what would turn out to be the worst cappuccino ever created, I heard some college-age girls behind me:

GIRL#1: OMG you have to try a *seizure* salad.
GIRL#2: Really? I’m not that crazy about sal—
GIRL#1: OMG no really, romaine lettuce, chicken…they’re to *die* for!
GIRL#2: seriously?
GIRL#1: seriously.

Seriously.

O, how I’m sitting here praying that the fine Gwen Ifill asks Biden and Our Lady of Petroleum, Sarah Palin, about alternative energy sources tonight!

Pray with me, chil’ren!

…terminal consonants.

And is it only me that it rankles?

It’s bad enough that we have a nuke-yuh-lur President, and this is more than some kind of tight-assed annoyance. Ferchrissakes, even the bubble-bauble heads of what passes for serious newscasts in this country must iron out their backwoods accents in order to be clearly understood by the general public.

But there’s Sarah Palin’s accent seemingly from everywhere that’s a nowhere, everywhere that has an interstate exit and a Walmart, trying to be taken seriously by everyone.

There are actually people that prefer Palin because she’s some kind of Jo six-pack. Is she really? She likely wouldn’t be a recipient of the Obama-proposed middle-class tax cuts, with her family’s annual income clocking in around $250,000.

Do average Americans really go mayoring around small towns proselytizing music teachers with stories of dinosaurs and human beings living together in a Flinstones-esque diorama comprised of Fundamentalist yarns? Do average Americans, when getting sips of power in their lives try to translate such power into banning books?

I’m not making a very compelling argument here, am I?

What ever was the likelihood that someone like her—who can’t even commit to identifying what newspapers and magazines she’s read over the years to stay in touch with the news of the world from her snowy, cartoonish perch in Wasilla—could even be a panegyrist, much less tilting towards monarch?

And why can’t she name a major Supreme Court case besides Roe v. Wade?

What kind of potential President is this person when she’s afraid of commitment?

How is it that McCain is running on all his governmental experience in accusing Obama of being too new, while dopey-folksy Palin spins an age-insult towards Joe Biden into how fresh and new-to-Washington she is?

Sometimes I think she doesn’t even realize she’s lying. And trust! She lies.

Most people think that Tina Fey is spot-on in her impersonation of Palin; truth be told, when you watch enough of the real Palin, you’ll realize that Fey is improving on the original.

I’d even go so far as to say that Fey’s Palin is more candid in parody than Sarah’s Palin is in real life.

She’s a cow; she’s not ready; she’s offensive.

And she’s riding into the VP Debate with the absolute lowest expectations ever seen for a VP candidate.

How unlikely would this have been even 10 years ago? As Rachel Maddow said, it’d be “as unlikely as a caveman riding a dinosaur chasing a unicorn”.

Rachel Maddow is more qualified to be VP than Sarah Palin.

Boehner’s flip flop today redefines the very words “flip flop”.

Nancy Pelosi overspoke, stupidly on her part, but really, did the Republicans just get pissy and take it out on the entire economy?

I think they did.

Here’s Boehner’s boner:

First he says: “If I didn’t think we were on the brink of an economic disaster, it would be the easiest thing to say no to this,” Boehner said. But he said lawmakers needed to do what was in the best interest of the country.

After listening to Pelosi’s factually correct “partisan” speech:

House minority leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said after the vote that passage would have been possible if it had not been for Pelosi’s “partisan speech.”

So he was insulted and so he pissed all over the U.S. economy.

My favorite, though, is a conservative Republican from the great planet state of Texas, Rep. Jeb Hensarling. He opened his douche-nozzle of a mouth and said:

“The relevant test is, when you look at the good in the bill, when you look at the bad in the bill—does it take America in a direction that you believe America should go? By that test, Madam Speaker, I will vote no on this legislation.[…]”

Everything changes, Mr. Hensarling. Everything. The only constant is Change. In the face of that, attempting to thwart it is con “I fear that ultimately it may not work. I fear that it is too much bailout and not enough work out. I fear that taxpayers may end up inheriting the mother of all debts,” he added.

What Mr. Hensarling is really saying is that he prefers the past over any future and that he’s willing to tramp Americans down in the dirt rather than accept the fluid, relative nature of the universe. America isn’t Absolute. America isn’t a democracy. America swims in technology not even dreamed of just twenty years ago.

Everything changes.

A hawk cries:
Commander approaches.

In place we are I am
I step they step we step.

We stand they stand I stand
Elevated, beneath the hawk.

A forest where trees stand
Where trees hide, where we hide.

In elevation I am uprooted, higher
I fear looking down.

The hawk cries:
Commander approaches.

I move it moves we move.
In elevation I am uprooted.

Commander approaches.

McCain directly offered that the USA has, in fact, been torturing prisoners.

To avoid accusation of an out-of-context clip, I’m quoting the whole thought/paragraph:

So we have a long way to go in our intelligence services. We have to do a better job in human intelligence. And we’ve got to — to make sure that we have people who are trained interrogators so that we don’t ever torture a prisoner ever again.

Seeing as how there’ve been four “wars” after WW2 when the Geneva Convention was formulated, he couldn’t have meant anything other than recent events, whereby ‘recent’ I mean post-GC.

If one has stopped an activity, then that activity was stoppable, therefore it was occurring.

So McCain—who belabors every point that he knows the military and knows what’s going on in the military—confesses that this country has been torturing prisoners.

Thanks for the information. Huge, heartfelt props for the candor.

Apropos of nothing other than the Cowardly Liar’s track record: “maverick” is not a term that one uses on one’s self. It’s a judgment of one or more people that’s directed at a third party. Saying “I’m a maverick” is tantamount to “I’m buying into my own mythos.”

You can’t stand up there in front of a planetary audience having been n a powerful legislative body (perhaps the most powerful) for twenty-six years, follow the special rules into forming and heading a campaign, only to stand at podia with a running made, obeying all the forms of the particular forum of debate and call yourself a maverick.

It’s untoward! It’s not toward!

This from the Wall Street Journal online:

So What’s wrong with it?

Easy: it appeared this morning, approximately twelve hours before the debate actually started, perhaps even before McCain had announced his flip-flop on attending the debate.

Is it just me, or does McCain really need to hire P.T. Barnum as a Campaign Advisor?

In what can only be described as a pathetically amateur bit of legerdemain, the McCain Campaign keeps taking these orthoganal safaris in order to distract the voting public from the fact that he’s boring and souless.

First, there’s Palin. The McCain Campaign was moribund until he flashed Caribou Barbie to the world and sent the fact-sniffing media chasing after the details of the unknown (and undeservedly so) Sarah Palin. To keep the investigative journalists chasing after ethereal trivia about her, the sexist campaign treats Palin like a “little lady” by “protecting” her from the real world.

I have to say I can understand why they keep her sequestered, because no matter how intelligent and successfully-manipulative she is, she chooses to use her talents to spin her lackings instead of actually addressing her lackings.

For god(dess)’ sake, she believes the only reason to have a passport is to be the child of rich parents who can afford to send her off backpacking in Europe! How fucking stupid is she?

So what has Mr. Coward Moron accomplished recently?

1. He “suspended” (without actually suspending) his campaign to be a patriot.
2. He swanned into DC to “help”, but who was he helping?
3. His egoic insertion into the Congressional proceedings did nothing but disrupt the entire thing.
4. His egoic insertion into the “bailout” did nothing but rile up the House Republicans to risk the well-being of the entire nation just so they could get some attention in a national forum.
5. Aside: insecure bottoms generally make noise that they’re not really bottoms.
6. He lied about his conditions for the Debate.
7. He lied about suspending his campaign.
8. He lied about the reasons for his participation in Washington.

And finally? I think he needed an excuse to take a rest in the campaigning. He lied to all of us, he lied to David Letterman.

He’s a fucking liar.

It was pointed out that Obama had “agreed” a lot with McCain, but what it really was was candid (perhaps too candid) acknowledgement of agreement on some of the points he made.

But what I want you to pay attention to is future behavior: expect that the Pro-McCain camp will soundbite every instance of “I agree…” and spool it out as a series of agreements on major points.

Just watch the Dowding of Truth by the Right once again.

UPDATE: I really hate being right, sometimes. I always wish the comments I make on harsher things are wrong because I’m a man very much in favor of statemanship over gamesmanship and certainly anything in the world over chowderheaded brinkmanship.

Before McCain left the stage of the debate, his shallow, literalist campaign posted a video to YouTube:

The first time I watched this video, it was so quick to be posted that McCain didn’t even have a chance to approve of it. But obviously that grumpy, ugly man did, finally.

What a pig. Is it latent Stockholm Syndrome on his part?

Anyway, what to take away from this about McCain’s Campaign? That his campaign would claim “victory” for McCain no matter how he performed or fared.

Nice folks, huh?

From the debate, Senator McCain:

I looked into Mr. Putin’s eyes and I saw three letters: “K”, “G”, “B”

Are you fucking KIDDING ME?

There’s no good reason for McCain to suspend his campaign, unless you view it from the what’s-good-for-McCain angle.

He’s declining in the polls. He’s old and he needs a rest (which bodes oh-so-well for a McCain presidency). Since the razzle-dazzle of the Palin fiasco seemed to work for a while with a stupid populace needing more Shiny-Shiny™ in their lives, he’s going for another one. The Republican caucus in Congress desperately needs to keep reminding people they matter.

He’s a coward. And he’s probably damn near the point where he’s about to have not enough of his soul left in his body to keep bartering with.

Cain didn’t bother to inform the Obama campaign about his plans before he announced it to the world. When Nancy Pfotenhauer was asked why McCain snubbed the Obama campaign (an honorable person would have done so—McCain is dishonorable), her reply, with unconvincing incredulity was along the lines of Do you really think it was a snub?

Seriously.

But last night when President Bush devoted a whole fourteen minutes to describing the financial system that so fucked up this country, he said,

There is a spirit of cooperation between Democrats and Republicans and between Congress and this administration. In that spirit, I’ve invited Senators McCain and Obama to join congressional leaders of both parties at the White House tomorrow to help speed our discussions toward a bipartisan bill.

Did the President just interfere with a Presidential Campaign?

Yes, he did.

He inserted himself into McCain’s “plan” in a ridiculous attempt to lend validation to McCain’s cowardly act.

Bush also make an attempt at relevancy for himself, more than suggesting that he had some stake in the bipartisan-ness of the whole thing. Mr. President? The Congress is led by Democrats. They’re setting the pace because that’s what a Majority does—unless it’s a Republican majority…then they just shut out Democrats and take out Contracts on America.

What are the punishments for interfering with a Federal Election? Probably nothing in this case, because they’re awfully (and I do mean awful-ly) good at letting themselves off the hook.

I’m so glad I was wrong. Here’s your God of Biscuits making it right.

Obama responded to McCain:

With respect to the debates, it’s my belief that this is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from the person who, in approximately 40 days, will be responsible for dealing with this mess. And I think that it is going to be part of the president’s job to deal with more than one thing at once. I think there’s no reason why we can’t be constructive in helping to solve this problem and also tell the American people what we believe and where we stand… So in my mind, actually, it’s more important than ever that we present ourselves to the American people and try to describe where we want to take the country and where we want to take the economy.

In other words, McCain starts on a losing trend (granted, a bad one) and he wants to bail on his efforts to be the President.

Obama stays the course, you McCain-camp turds.

If you doubt this, just note what McCain’s Senior Aide let slip today on MSNBC. When asked why McCain can’t multitask, “and isn’t that part of the job description of being POTUS?”, she answers that McCain is prioritizing.

But prioritizing isn’t what he’s doing. Priortizing requires having multiple things at play and choosing which are more important than others. McCain is halting everything else so that he can do just the one thing.

But Obama called it that way, and that makes me happy.

Total Aside: Bill Clinton is on TV and used the word “vicissitude”. Can you imagine Bush going near that kind of thing?

What a Supreme Dickhead.

Get this: McCain wants to “delay the debate”—and even his own campaign!—so that he can return to Washington to take care of this whole $700B thingy.

WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAT?

Oh, never mind the fact that his campaign is in a landslide and the only real choice he’s probably got is to stop everything for a week or so—plenty of time for stupid Americans to have the losses slip off the shallow end of their memories. What a coward.

In other words, he’s counting on Americans’ memories being so bad that he can get a total restart on his campaign.

That’s what he’s about. What’s Obama about? He called McCain this morning to suggest they get together and issue a joint statement on what they have in common with respect to the financial crisis.

It’s called multitasking, Mr. On The Email, On the Google.

There’s NO REASON that the debates can’t continue. Congress is already proceeding apace on the financial crisis—no matter how much I might disagree with how they’re proceeding.

No sane reason, anyway.

But according to ages-old Reaganist Republican bullshit, they’re playing at gamesmanship and even more to the point, brinkmanship: force the hand and stay the course, willing to drive the world into the ground. Think: playing-chicken.

So of course the Demos will respond, looking spineless because there’s more of a care to fix things and NOT let the world end.

We’ll have to see what Obama does. Given that he made that call this morning, I figure he’s going to put the value of a unified country before his own needs.

And he may pay the price for it if he does.

By the way, did McCain forget that it’s a Democrat-led Congress?

The only thing I can fathom in this is that Republicans would rather have Fascism than Socialism!

What Paulson said this morning:

We gave you a simple, three-page legislative outline and I thought it would have been presumptuous for us on that outline to come up with an oversight mechanism. That’s the role of Congress, that’s something we’re going to work on together. So if any of you felt that I didn’t believe that we needed oversight: I believe we need oversight. We need oversight.

Ok, ok! We get it! You think it’s necessary to have oversight! We finally agree on something! Hurrah!

Not so fast, Gentle Readers. Here’s what’s actually in the save-their-asses document sent to Congress:

Sec. 8. Review.

Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

Don’t this stupid asses realize that someone can fact-check them? Have they heard of video and audio recording? Have they heard of the internet?

Paul Krugman’s original article here.

It all ends where it started: hydraulic despotism

a term for despotic rule supported by control of a single, necessary resource

Hydraulic despotism is perhaps the single most important and, as we’re seeing, fatal flaw of Capitalism. Despotism is is a gathering of too much power surrounding a single agency, be it personal, corporate or resource-based.

Capitalism is a fertile breeding ground for despotism. How can we verify this? Look at where regulations have cropped up. Before you do that, though, remember the difference between regulation and Law. Regulation is necessarily past-minded, its raison d’être being simply to produce outcomes that would not have otherwise occurred.

Example: The utilities were raping their customers when they had a free hand. While they were doing such, electricity, gas, water service were necessary staples of living. Given that each utility had effective monopolies over areas, their customers were essentially prisoners. So the government steps in and regulates the utilities. The result? An outcome that never would have happened unregulated: energy bills that are largely affordable, with several programs to aid poorer households.

The lack of regulation and the Puff-the-Magic-Dragon notion of having created F&F the way they did—and without anywhere near enough regulation—is what brought us to this.

Regulations! the Conservatives will cry out, Regulations! They’re socialist! They cramp the style of “free” (don’t get me started) markets!

So what the fuck do you call $700B in handout-bailouts?

We’re a Socialist Nation. Period.

And we’re a flawed one, because the Socialist Government of the United States is only helping out large corporations and justifying it with suspiciously trickle-down “logic”.

Every last feeling I have on politics and business follows the one statement that sits at the base of everything I believe in this arena: Businesses ARE NOT People!

All these localities “bidding” for corporations to bring jobs to their areas by giving these businesses tax breaks? How the fuck did that ever pass? Do the math, chil’ren: a locality hands out an enormous tax break, which likely doesn’t include a guarantee that wages for new jobs will be at any premium at all. So people get jobs, but who is going to pay for those tax breaks handed to the corporation? People are. So the entire community is paying for those new jobs, the corporation is earning its money, is making even more profit by the way, and is taking those profits out-of-area. To sum that up: the entire community is funding the new jobs, and the corporation does nothing but make even more money.

Most people—renters or homeowners—understand the difference between paying into a house and gaining equity versus dumping money into a lease and never seeing any of it back.

Localities are only renting the corporation. The corporation, on the other hand, has been handed an asset.

Do the math for yourself.

The takeaway here? The United States of America is a Socialist Country.

The latest news…

The Microsoft Gates/Seinfeld ads have failed. It’s nothing but damage control when Microsoft tells you that they intended to end those ads after two.

The latest Microsoft ads are nothing new: Microsoft’s traditional “embrace and extend/extinguish” tactics, making “good enough” imitations (no flattery, though) and forcing these knock-offs into the market by attachment or by threat, as applied to Marketing instead of just business.

I can only conclude from the mistakes of Microsoft that arrogance has permeated the huge mindless beast of institutional bureaucracy to the point where they believe themselves both dauntless and untouchable. Now, it’s easy on a personal level to think yourself dauntless when what you really are is insecure and with a large blindspot, but when this happens at a corporate-cultural level, well, the solution more and more is razing and starting from the very beginning.

The latest gaffe? It turns out that the replacements (and never forget these new “I’m a PC” ads are at best a Plan B) for Seinfeld/Gates were created on Macs.

Why wouldn’t Microsoft have vetted any creative agencies for this? In the absence of that, why not require some kind of NDA arrangement with those agencies?

Turns out, they may actually have done both!

So how does this come out? Some enterprising person on the intarwebs looked into the metadata of the content (click on the image to see the original flickr):

Here’s the ad itself:

Notice any familiarities to the “Mac/PC” ads? How about any familiarities to the ten-year-old “Crazy Ones” ads from Apple?

The biggest gotcha about this whole thing is the completeness of the also-ran status of Microsoft with respect to Apple: they’ve always “borrowed” Apple-creative materials…but that was in the product arena. These “I’m a PC” ads are a full-on admission that Microsoft lacks creativity even when they outsource it to non-Microsoft companies.

Blatant? Yes. Self-awareness at Microsoft that they are blatant? Not so much, necessarily.

A beast the size of Microsoft need only roll over on anyone else and supplant the original, but just as Gates underestimated the Internet the first time around, Microsoft is ignoring the cultural, historical and archival aspects of the internet. Everyone can recall with a few taps at Yahoo.com or Google.com what went down.

The wreckage and rust of a corporate past keeps getting dragged forward. Microsoft knows that supplanting the original tends to hide and therefore modify history.

Can a beast rollover on itself, supplanting its own original with something new?

I don’t much like anything about pirates—except for the Pixburgh Pirates!

I can recall all of the Talk Like a Pirate days so far, but I didn’t participate in any of ‘em.

What’s new this time around? I think humanity—the idea, not the collection—itself has taken a beating over the years. Ever driven down by ever driving life—more money, more work, more pissing away of time to unworthy pursuits, like 80 hour work-weeks (Hi, Apple!) and chasing tail (whatever shape or texture you prefer), hours of video games, hours of TV (hi, HGTV!).

Noble purpose, creation-ideation, enkindling of good will, acquisition of knowledge, reification and actualization of intelligence (“elitism” indeed!). Where have they all gone?

But those are a lot of work, often viewed a toil of the grim-lived.

There are also aspects of Humanity that are deserving of both majesty and majuscule: Joy, Spontaneity, Frivolity. We are the Flowers of the Animal Kingdom, finding and creating a Heaven above Utility, Aspects above the Compulsory.

What has this to do with Talk Like A Pirate Day?

Ask yourselves: whatever is the reason? Stupid, stupid question. We need no reason, no purpose to many things we do. Does Wonder need a reason? Does Magic come with a user manual?

A Kiss! More than osculation but nothing close to a necessary step to reproduction and isn’t that Marvelous?

Talk Like a Pirate Day is something that counts for nothing, has not a reason, not a purpose or even a means.

It’s there for our enjoyment, it brings people together, it makes us smile, it makes life a little bit better. It’s the funner antipodes of gravitas.

Why do I have the feeling that we’re going to find out soon that Bush’s relatives have key positions in Fannie & Freddie?

The Congress (which means, for all intents and purposes, Democrats) have been peddling this line all day.

The want to make sure that “what’s happened on Wall Street doesn’t happen on Main Street”.

Meaning, of course, that they’re “for the people” and are trying to protect us all from the stupid fucking mess that’s the result of unregulated financial institutions. “Freddie & Fanny” breathed their contagion into the financial world: the simple description? F & F had brilliant ideas like sub-prime mortages…and added insult to injury by securitizing those mortgages…so banks are trading securities based on stupid mortgage tricks, and you can see how that easily conflates to tying the housing markets to the overall economy. Nice to have an entire country dependent on a single “free” market, isn’t it?

That Wall Street/Main Street thing is uncomfortable to read. I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s too trite, or maybe Congress shouldn’t be in the sloganeering business.

Or perhaps the cartoonish nature of a slogan only bespeaks the stupidity and short attention spans of the general public.

Obama “elitist”? Because he’s smart and he’s a quick study? Calling out a phantom “elitism” (shoo keep using that word, I do not think you know what it means) is nothing more than a means of letting intellectually lazy people feeling ok about parking their brains in the barcalounger.

McCain says that he’s going to give every family $5000 so they can “choose their own doctor”. The $5000 he’s giving each family is in the form of a tax credit.

Sounds awesome, doesn’t it?

Except that this is $5000 that can be used solely for the purpose of transferring it to health insurance corporations.

Not so awesome, huh?

From the US Census, there are

Let’s do some research. (“What is this research of which you speak?” ask the dogmatic out there) There are 308 million people.

The US Census Data says that there are 111,617,402 households in the U.S. Of those, 66.8% are family households.

That gives about 75M households. The remainder of households, about 37M, have at least one person in each which gets $2500 in “health insurance tax credits”.

Given that there are an average of 2.61 people per family, that accounts for 196M people. From 308M that leaves 112M individuals

Each family, about 75M gets $5000. That’s $375B (yes, BILLION). 117M people gets $2500 each. That’s $35B (yes, BILLION)

For a total of $410,000,000,000.

The cost of the “war” in Iraq? $555,000,000,000

For all the staggering going on about how we’re going to pay for all that death and destruction, up comes McCain’s plan. Added together, these things will cost us nearly one TRILLION dollars.

But back to McCain’s attempt to improve our lives.

McCain and his small-government ethics adds that $410,000,000 to our debt.

But he’s giving money to us to help us!

Is he? Really? What are the restrictions on that money he’s giving us? Oh yeah, ALL OF THAT 410 BILLION DOLLARS CAN ONLY GO TO GIANT HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES, WHICH ARE FOR-PROFIT.

Isn’t that nice? He’s going to spend $410,000,000 so that he can give us our own money back. But wait! He’s not giving us our money back, he’s going to take our money (more on that in a bit), ride it through the bureaucratic morass and give it back to us—after months riding on a float—and demands we give it to health insurance corporations.

Fun!

But about taking our money: yes, he’s taking our money and not the money of corporations, because…wait for it…he’s planning on tax cuts for corporations!

If he were really serious about health care, he’d regulate health insurance. Everyone deserves health care, which makes it more like a utility than anything else. Why do they regulate utilities? Oh yeah, so they can’t rape us with high prices, like Texas raped California back when we had an energy crisis.

Why doesn’t he simply force the health insurance companies to subtract a percentage of that “tax cut” directly from their price scheduling?

And why the hell are insurance companies making profits anyway?

I’ve discovered that Sarah Palin is a fine, fine Christian, and we should all cleave to Jesus’ breast because of her:

1. I’ve discovered Saints I never knew existed!

   • Saint Piper, patron saint of people who think that removing one “unwelcome” population won’t give rise to another even more unwelcome population.
   • Saint Willow, patron saint of lesbian witches.
   • Saint Bristol, patron saint of places near Bridges to Nowhere and near Spatial Rifts.
   • Saint Track, patron saint of IV drug users.
   • Saint Trig, patron saint of tangents and political hay.

2. She’s Pro-Choice!

   • She supports her own right to choose to keep the pregnancy and is a Pro “Life” hero because of it.
   • If VP, she’ll support the right to choose to let soldiers continue to be terminated
   • She chose to refuse funding for a Bridge to Nowhere after its funding had been terminated
   • She chooses to interpret the Bible wherein it gives dominion over the earth to man as “hunt down mooses and shoot wolves from aircraft” and “drill the Alaskan preserved lands into Hell”.

3. She won’t do a thing without invoking the christian god

   • god wants us to kill Iraqis
   • god wants us to have guns
   • god wants her to be VP.

To me, she’s George W. Bush in drag. Or maybe he’s the one who’s Sarah Palin in drag. She’s there for no other reason than to get a vagina on the ticket. She’s a “culture warrior”, because goddess knows that conservatives who want small government and want the government out of our bedrooms needs a “warrior” to kill or quash all those people who are out there having sex before marriage and putting their penises in places other than vaginas who shoot guns (again with the penis psychology), shoot gays and shoot down any version of god but their own. Maybe it’s a contributory lack of vaginas in the white house that’s resulted in a gross expansion of government by the Republicans?

The election is, if anything, even more moronic, where podunks are calling for the heads of people who are smart and who think learning is a good thing, where the one they want for the highest offices in the land require no other talent or morality than being “just like me”.

She’s a horrible, horrible woman who hates women, who hates gays, who hates peace, and who hates people who think she’s a hater.

She didn’t need to be anything else other than tits on the stick they all use to beat down anyone who’s “just not like me”.

The text of it:

Look, I know the area, I’ve been there, I know wars, I know how to win wars, and I know how to improve our capabilities so that we will capture Osama Bin Laden — or put it this way, bring him to justice. We will do it. I know how to do it.

You know how to win wars? No, Senator McCain, you don’t know how to win wars, you only know how to get yourself captured during one.

That’s how a Republican would do things were McCain a Democrat.

You really should watch the video below. I’ll let Keith Olbermann talk more about the fact that McCain seems to be saying “vote for me and then I’ll capture bin Laden”. I’ll only add that, by extension, McCain is actually saying that unless you vote for him, he won’t tell you how to capture bin Laden”.

That’s how a thinking person would interpret McCain:

The ladies of The View should get all the props in the world for this. Not only do they use words to call McCain on all of his lies and how he traded a spine for a “spin”, the very fact of it is a deed to call the supposedly liberal “MSM” on why they keep giving McCain—and especially the Hockey Moose-killer Mom—so many passes on so many obvious untruths and deceptions.

Maybe it’s because McCain has a 150 or so lobbyists on his campaign staff and most media outlets are owned by mega-corporations, the kind of entities which employ…wait for it…lobbyists in Washington. Religious organizations are in this exact same group, only they don’t employ lobbyists, they’re run by lobbyists.

Imagine if the religious right were finally recognized to be far more like media outlets than not.

Imagine if McCain were forced not only to remove his deceptive ads, but run more ads to apologize for violating Fickle Finger of Faith #8.