Last full day of voting for the Weblog Awards!

A vote for Rumproast in the Weblog Awards is a sharp poke in the eye to the one of the blogosphere’s most universally loathed bus station pests, The Confluence’s myiq2xu, who came up with the sure-to-fail plan of keeping us from winning by endorsing a homophobic, Hillary-hating wingnut blogger in our category, and it’s also a vote against insanely delusional and racist PUMA rants like this:

mountainsong 01.12.09 at 12:02 am

Ths weekend, I heard some disturbing talk. I hope that’s all it was, but I don’t thinks so.
Some people were saying that blacks have declared an ‘unspoken Declaration of War’ against the United States. Not all blacks, but certainly those who affiliate with thir generalisimo, BO
They said we couldn’t stop him from being elected. And we wont stop him in the next 4 years. But they are 100% serious about a ‘do or die” idea about changing this country.
I think it’s sad we can’t all see ourselves as brothers and sisters. Even sadder that I may have to assume wearing the mantle of “racist.” Well, if they want to take the guns and ammunition, ‘they’ are going to have to find them, first.
These people said that for many years the whites treated the blacks as disposables, dispensable. And that what goes around, comes around. That during the entire campaign they used the white youth and high society and will now dump them since they’ve served their purpose.
I asked if they were from ACORN, by any chance, and they all acted like they didn’t know what I was talking about.
So, I said something like, “You don’t really believe all this shit do you?” They said, “You’ll see.” And I said “F*k you!” and left.

Now go vote for us and for all of these fine folks below.  Some of them really need your vote, so please do your part. Roar.

• Best Very Large Blog: Jesus’ General (vote here)
  
• Best Hidden Gem: The Pajama Pundit (vote here)
  
• Best Liberal Blog: THE BIGGEST CHEATER IN THE WORLD (vote here) Ha ha!  Haxxor perl script promisez, failure #1 and failure #2. Where iz? Obama kill haxxor? *fart*
  
• Best Humor Blog: Jon Swift (vote here)
  
• Best Large Blog: skippy the bush kangaroo (vote here)
  
• Best Military Blog: Army of Dude (vote here)
  
• Best New Blog: ~ synthesis ~ (vote here)
  
• Best Up and Coming Blog: Connecting.the.Dots (vote here)
  
• Best Individual Blogger: Driftglass (vote here)
  
• Best Political Coverage: Nobody’s going to beat FiveThirtyEight (with good reason), so vote for Daily Kos just because it’ll make Flowbee’s fucking head explode losing to Markos, who doesn’t seem to give a shit about these awards.
  
• Best LGBT Blog: Pam’s House Blend (vote here)
  
• Best Science Blog: Pharyngula (vote here)
  
• Best Major Blog: Balloon Juice ... oops ... nope ... TBogg (vote here)
  
• Best Comic Strip: xkcd (vote here)
  
• Best UK Blog: Created In Birmingham (vote here)
  

Posted by Kevin K. on 01/12/09 at 01:23 PM • Permalink

First!  Really have nothing to say, just wanted to be first!!!!!!!

Except that people must be voting insanely over there as I can’t even get in to the Weblog website.  God, I hope Nice Deb’s not getting a huge surge!

Hahaha! Kevin’s broken the Weblog Awards.

Hah! marindenver has to make a contribution to keep the lights on at Rumproast!

Cha-ching, KK.

No change for cheaters.

This was scrubbed from The Confluence, so let’s use my “Spell-of-Pasting Card” to resurrect it from the Yu-Gi-Oh! Graveyard:

Vindicated Black Guy, on January 12th, 2009 at 11:42 am Said:

madamab:

You keep waiting on the dems to jump on your bandwagon.

Bring a book. Long wait ahead.

And reminder: Hillary is on Obama’s team now. Somehow you keep missing this point. Maybe when you see Hillary and Obama working together to fix the issues in the ME, you will accept that fact.

Or maybe you plan to attack Obama’s foreign policy in the coming months while pretending that Clinton has nothing to do with it.

The Confluence. Where Stimulating Intellectual Dialogue Goes to Die.

An update on my letter campaign regarding the PUMAtards using the PUMA brand. The company has responded below;

From: Kristina Fields <Kristina.Fields@puma.com>
Date: Mon, January 12, 2009 5:49 am
To: jd

Dear jd,

Dr. Santjer has forwarded me your email.  I oversee marketing communications for PUMA in the US.  I will look into your inquiry below and get back to you shortly.  Again, I appreciate and thank you for your email.

Best regards,
Kristina

____________________
Kristina Fields
Director of Marketing Communications

PUMA North America
10 Lyberty Way
Westford, MA 01886

Tel 978.698.1144 // Fax 978.698.1174 // Cell 978.328.8474

http://www.puma.com // http://www.tretorn.com

I encourage everyone to go here http://blog.12009.org/2009/01/11/a-taste-of-their-own.aspx and copy my letter, make it your own and send to the good Dr., I would love to hear about a cease and desist letter. Also attach any evidence of the PUMA shoe logo being altered for their use and and links to racist, violent posts and comments.
Let’s turn the tables on them.

johnD, great idea.

They can really get burned over the pumasphere logo.

The funny thing is that will probably be the first successful prowl ever and it has absolutely nothing to do with Donna Brazile.

http://pumapac.org/2009/01/12/were-going-to-need-a-b igger-tent/

Does anyone else find it ironic that Murphy is posting about equality and what-not while employing the manufactured term “boiz”, intended to resonate much in the same manner as “polack” or “limey”?

(I chose to use those derogatories because I got polack and limey blood, so don’t freak out on me)

God, I hope Nice Deb’s not getting a huge surge!

Those fourteen votes from PUMA Pac are going to propel her to glory.

I prefer to call it a roast instead of a prowl.

I’m gonna forward Kristina Fields the pumasphere logo shortly.

But I watched and read at the liberal BOIZ blogs for the first seven years of the Bush Administration, and there is NO way I want us to become like them — a bunch of boring, screaming juvenile boys spending HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS coming up with cruder and more violent descriptions of ways to humiliate George W. Bush (most of them involving rape, chainsaws, and other rusty objects — to give you a picture of the level of discourse.)

Seriously, where was she hanging out?  I seemed to have missed the Bush rape n’ chainsaw fantasies.  And that’s a pretty precious paragraph coming from someone who hosts a blog with comments about tearing Al Franken’s “pencil dick” off and letting him bleed to death “sans medication.”

Or am I missing something here?

johnD--I copied your email and sent it to all of my state Congressional reps and my local City Aldermen—because that’s what a PUMA would do, and there’s no arguing with a successful formula for political action.

(if you dont want to vote for Nice Deb — that’s fine. Anyone but the horrid rumproast.)

Now with much improved horrid!

hahaha thanks strange! I think....

"Horrid Rumproast”? Is that some sort of snarky take on “Unstable Hambeast”?

That comment was from the Murph…

johnD--I copied your email and sent it to all of my state Congressional reps and my local City Aldermen—because that’s what a PUMA would do, and there’s no arguing with a successful formula for political action.

That’s not entirely true.  They’d also send it to Hannity, Rushbo, O’Reilly, Cavuto, Greta, Drudge and Donna Brazile.

“Horrid Rumproast”? Is that some sort of snarky take on “Unstable Hambeast”?

I think it’s also a crappy speed metal band from Delaware.

BigCatLover 01.12.09 at 1:31 pm

I read Atlas Shrugged forty years ago but I have never gotten over the scene where the lead character (a female) has sex on the dirty floor of the train station to represent a woman who is too busy to get into a relationship. Can you imagine how dirty a train station floor is? But the book did predict alot of things we’re seeing now; namely, the incompetent have been running the country.

“However, regardless of the book’s awesome political prescience, it’s that damn sex-on-the-dirty-floor thing that keeps drawing me back. I mean sex...on a dirty floor...where people can see you...and it’s all dirty and stuff...and you’re just doing it...’cause, you know, you’re so fucking horny and busy that you have to get it on a dirty floor in public…

“Whew. I’m sorry—what was today’s Prowl?”

So when does the moratorium on PUMA content begin? I need time to find anything as snark-worthy.

Sorry for the double post on your blog, John. I got confused by the email verification you’ve now added.

Okay, I’m just gonna say it: the fondest fantasy harbored by most PUMAs appears to be violent violation at the hands of a Black Savage! Their Mandingo scenarios of rapacious uncontrollable black men are so out of control. They talk about rape more than William Donohue of the Catholic League talks about anal sex.

Oh, and P.S.: William Donohue totally wants a man’s pee-pee in his boom-boom.

So when does the moratorium on PUMA content begin? I need time to find anything as snark-worthy.

Just to be clear, it’s just the posts that will be PUMA-free. It’s not like we’re going to be running around like you-know-who lecturing people about not mentioning their name or deleting comments where they’re mentioned.  I’ve also been promising forever to set up a kind of endless open thread/forum (like the FARK Forum), so this will give me a good reason to finally set that up.

They also seem to be rather orally fixated.

The number of things that have apparently been rammed down their throats is worthy of The Guinness Book of Records.

BTW, does anyone know when the awards end?  I know at some point tomorrow but I don’t know at what time.  I tried finding it in their FAQ and Forum, but nada.  And then their whole site turned to sludge.

“Horrid Rumproast”? Is that some sort of snarky take on “Unstable Hambeast”?

Best washed down with Kool-aid.  PUMAs trade recipes.  Roasters trade descriptions of the Worst Christmas Dinner Ever.

The number of things that have apparently been rammed down their throats is worthy of The Guinness Book of Records.

Hostess Donette’s while watching the View?

CLearly the closest they have come to actual ween is myiq posting while naked.

10p.m. Greenwich Mean Time. Not sure how that translates to everyone’s time zones, what with daylight saving etc.

Ah. Here you go:

Polls close Tuesday January 13, 2009 at 10:00 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which is 5:00 p.m. (EST) and 2:00 p.m. (PST).

BTW, in case you’re getting jumpy, Rumproast is still pwning NiceDeb.

Ths weekend, I heard some disturbing talk. I hope that’s all it was, but I don’t thinks so.

Yes, it is disturbing when you share what the sheet wearing voices in your head are talking about.

(most of them involving rape, chainsaws, and other rusty objects — to give you a picture of the level of discourse.)

...and other rusty objects?  You wouldn’t get very far with a rusty chainsaw and as for rape being rusty...I personally would suggest canola oil (an oil derived from rapeseed) to keep that lubricated. Now where is my rusty woman lyncher....?

justlen--Thanks for the posted closing time.

In truth, though, the voting has been “over” ever since I turned on the Multibank Click Metastasizer RAID Array.

Just to be clear, it’s just the posts that will be PUMA-free.

So, let’s see if I’ve got this right.  I write a long, fully researched, well documented post about an issue of pressing national importance, open the comments, then everyone runs in to pile on the PUMAs?  OK, I’m cool with it.

sorry brit, I’m gonna somehow fix that, it somehow got activated when I pulled the moderation off of the comments.

Oops. Thanks goes to yetanotherfreakingbrit.

I admit....

I’m voting for a site that the PUMAs are recommending....

....but damnit, I LIKE Cake Wrecks!!  It’s a great food blog!

I guess we’ll find out how good PUMA’s perl haxxers are.

I admit....

I’m voting for a site that the PUMAs are recommending....

....but damnit, I LIKE Cake Wrecks!!  It’s a great food blog!

Some blogs bring people together.  In an odd way, we qualify since we’re getting a lot of votes just for being the anti-PUMA blog.  You guys at YTD shoulda cashed in on that racket, yo.  It’s solid gold.

I’m voting for a site that the PUMAs are recommending....

I’ve got to admit I’ve gone off-piste with my votes in a couple of categories, Patrick. I do like AtLargely, for instance, and I think Pandagon’s had some love from me too, both for old time’s sake from the election. But mainly it’s a tactical thing if there’s any chance of an unsavory blog squeaking it.

I can’t believe I got sucked into this whole palaver ...

I guess we’ll find out how good PUMA’s perl haxxers are.

I think we already did.

BTW, just surveyed and every PUMA blog is losing.  Unfortunately, one’s losing to a conservative blog (Best Up and Coming), but it doesn’t look too wingnutty.  Make sure you vote for the Pajama Pundit (not affiliated with PJM).  That looks like the closest race and the Dead Enders must not win. That’s a total tinfoil PUMA blog.

Oh, and CiB’s now caning Melanie Phillips. so thanks to all for your efforts there (I may have more to say on that contest once the voting’s done, if anyone’s interested).

I do like AtLargely, for instance, and I think Pandagon’s had some love from me too, both for old time’s sake from the election. But mainly it’s a tactical thing if there’s any chance of an unsavory blog squeaking it.

I was going to recommend AtLargely, but I didn’t know it and it looked like it didn’t stand a chance (plus our list was getting too long).  I have been voting for it, though.  Yeah, it’s too bad Pandagon is in the same category as Jesus’ General.  Even though Amanda posted about Murphy’s McCain donation after me, she’s the one that really got the word out there.  I’m kinda surprised the PUMAs haven’t targeted her.

I’m thinking they have one more trick to pull, like porting over that application they use to run up last-minute bids on ebay for their favorite calico kitty cookie jars or something

… that application they use to run up last-minute bids on ebay for their favorite calico kitty cookie jars or something

I will not be denied!  My collection will be complete!!

Will Bower (Washington, DC) wrote
at 4:53am
Please vote for the following PUMA/pro-PUMA blogs:

The Confluence: http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-liberal-blog/

No Quarter: http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-political-coverage/

Uppity Woman: http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-new-blog/

The Washington Note: http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-very-large-blog/

Nice Deb: http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-small-blog/

Hot Air: http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-blog/

Deadenders: http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-hidden-gem/

Bower Power!  Every one of them losing. Someone should contact Steve Clemons and get him to beg Bower to withdraw his endorsement. He may still stand a chance.

Some people were saying that blacks have declared an ‘unspoken Declaration of War’ against the United States. Not all blacks, but certainly those who affiliate with thir generalisimo, BO

So is it fucking declared or undeclared? I mean, if they didn’t say anything about the coming Black Revolution, how do you know it’s been planned?

And if it’s undeclared, how can it be declared?

And who are the Blacks going to attack first? Why white wimmin, doncha know, because anyone who has read any book or watched any movie knows that’s all Black people want, all of them want—white women.

Fat, Hambeasty white women.

How much ya wanna bet the tool that wrote this crap has a porn library filled with “African Ass-Masters and their white slaves”

Grace the Spot’s gotta give up the whining about the Wonkette vs. PUMA showdown. Her blog’s probably gotten twice as much traffic/attention as it normally would have because so many people are checking out the Best New Blog awards page. She was never going to win anyway.

So is it fucking declared or undeclared?

As Homer might say, they’re not not declaring a Declaration of War.

According to Will, he’s raised 6-10 million votes in a week.

Bower Power!

That there slate’s Noo Liberalism™ in a nutshell.

Props to Tom65! Also.

Sweet Jesus, do any PUMAs have basic social skills or a higher-than-third-grade EQ?

Look at these embarassing, hamhanded attempts at seduction:

Annie: “I noticed you are beating us. I have a great idea! Why don’t you concede? Then you will be a hero to many, many women!”

(To be fair, Annie probably borrowed this from Hillary’s primary strategy of, “Barack Obama is kicking my ass. I’m willing to consider having him as my running mate in the general election.")

Eddy: “You apparently have little knowledge about the pride of Middle Eastern men… Men don’t like being manipulated that way.”

This is FREAKING AWESOME! I hope that Eddy starts her own blog, so that she can continue to educate us about the pride and passions of Middle Eastern Men! So rustic! So exotic!

portia9: “You don’t seem to share any of these characteristics with them, so why would you want to be associated with them? Your blog, from what I can tell, is introspective and thoughtful. Theirs is catty and shallow.”

So shafeen, be a sweet dear and throw yourself under the bus so that your introspective, thoughtful blog loses to our horrifying PUMA echo chamber. There might be something in it for you, you proud Middle Eastern man! (*wink*, *kiss*)

Oh, PUMAs, who can resist your wily charms?

Posted by: Harriet Christian | Jan 12, 2009 at 08:10

Is “Harriet” someone from here or Wonkette?  Either way ... “hugs”!

I tried to reply to Eddy, but for some reason sythesis won’t let me post anything (maybe the comment was too long...) The best part of it is that Shafeen was born in Tanzania and currently has a Canadian passport.

An exotic name does not a Middle Eastern man make (see also Barack HUSSEIN Obama).

Anchor Ass is history

From that other masturbatorium of fail, texasdarlin:

on January 12, 2009 at 6:34 amAli (Alikat/Alleycat)
Mary:

The 3 obama declarations:
1. martial law
2. Constitution null and void
3. Islamic Republic of America

Unfortunately, I agree. And as we have heard all week, Barky insists on being sworn in as “Barack HUSSEIN Obama”. All during the election process, he and his camp said it was not permitted to use his middle name, Hussein. But now he feels it would be good for the muslim world to see America has a muslim P (how about a lying Usurper). NOW its okay with him to use his middle name.

All weekend I kept reliving that eery part of Hillary’s speech — she said it on at least two occasions — remember she said something to the effect, “if you want your freedom, keep running, keep running, run toward the light (?lighted torch)”.
*I think she was trying to warn us.*
Warn us of Obama, of the destruction of our Country, *the destruction of our Constitution*, the destruction of our Liberty. She saw, in the Democratic Primary, she saw those dirty disgusting congressmen/women of the Democrat Party, the dirty disgusting DNC, the filth who were all too willing to spit on, to destroy, OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR COUNTRY, in support of an INELIGIBLE egomaniac.
I’ll never forget, and I’ll never forgive, how they treated Hillary (and Bill), and how they treated us. The demands by those scum that she leave the race. The nerve of them. They were all bought and paid for with that dirty Obama money.
Yes, we see that all the politicians are corrupt, but I have never in my lifetime seen something as despicable as those who were supporting the Destruction Of Our Constitution.

Our beautiful lady in New York Harbor, THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, holding a torch and a book inscribed “July 4, 1776″.
Yes, HILLARY WAS TRYING TO WARN US.

Damn the MSM, Damn the DNC, Damn them all.

Speaking of TxDarlin, her’s a gem:

For Best Conservative Blog, there are several quality nominees, but my vote is for Atlas Shrugs because of her extensive research and analysis.

How do you even try to parody that?

Anchor Ass is history

Here is my family’s answer to Anchor Ass ... Sister Mary Catherine hits the dating scene ... that’s my Cuz, Moira ...

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/28fcf11ed5/video-datin g-nun-from-moiraj

Kev I emailed you the link as well.

Oh, and for you nerds, she’s a Harry Potter expert ...

HumboldtBlue- that’s a great video. Almost every line is a religious reference. Funny.

Almost every line is a religious reference.

Catholicism, the theology that rots your brain.

My kids are HarryPotyter experts.

My son (11yrs) read the Golden Compass trilogy over the holidays.

I explained what the Magesterium represented from the real world, he got a big kick out of that.

He didn’t realize he was reading radical atheist propaganda, but then, around here, EVERYTHING is radical atheist propaganda

but then, around here, EVERYTHING is radical atheist propaganda

Thank God!

Once again, thanks for the endorsement. You helped keep me in third place, which is the only good spot in a contest against B5 and Yon. Thanks again.

Grace the Spot’s gotta give up the whining about the Wonkette vs. PUMA showdown. Her blog’s probably gotten twice as much traffic/attention as it normally would have because so many people are checking out the Best New Blog awards page. She was never going to win anyway.

Actually, Kevin, traffic only went up significantly when I started whining. :)

Good times. Good times.

“Horrid Rumproast”? Is that some sort of snarky take on “Unstable Hambeast”?

In fact, it’s an anagram of “Pumas Dirt Horror,” “Hairdo Storm Purr,” and “Maid Horror Spurt.”

All three of which I bagsy if we have a sweepstake when Palin has another baby.