Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Each day, we see how many items Google finds that include the words: “vastleft” and “bugfucker.”

11/19/08: 69
11/18/08: 50
11/17/08: 24
11/16/08: 23

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Posted by Kevin K. on 11/19/08 at 11:08 AM
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Just read a great interview with photo-journalist (and my neighbor) Scout Tufankjian in The Brooklyn Paper.  Tufankjian wisely predicted very early on in the game (December 2006) that Barack Obama was going to run for president and begged her editor to let her cover his not-yet-existent campaign.  Here she recounts a stop by Obama at a coffee shop-bookstore two months before his announcement:

“One person asked him to sign her copy of ‘Lady Chatterly’s Lover,’ and they got into a long talk about the book. Then the next person asked him about philosophy and suddenly they were talking about Kant and Heidegger. I thought, ‘Wow, this guy is smart.”

She also tells the story of overhearing a phone conversation three boys in an inner-city neighborhood were having with a friend who couldn’t make it to an Obama rally:

Posted by Kevin K. on 11/19/08 at 09:58 AM
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...to quell all of the hyperventilating that was going on in the leftosphere yesterday about Lieberman. I’ve loathed Jowly Joe longer than just about any blogger out there (going way back to his days as AG in Connecticut) and if I can suck it up so can everyone else. Obama was pretty clear about how he was going to govern and yet too many normally wise folks seem to think we elected Amy Goodman or David Sirota to be president.

News flash: we didn’t.

And if you want to know how I feel about yesterday (aside from, admittedly, wanting to briefly headbutt Lieberman to a bloody pulp after watching this), I fall somewhere between Steve M. and, believe it or not, Melissa McEwan. We’ve got much bigger fish to fry than that petulant bottom-feeding bristleworm. He ain’t worth the outrage and, as Betty noted here earlier, “martyrdom is something Holy Joe thrives on.” I fully trust that Obama gets that and that he’ll game Lieberman just like he did so many other alleged political geniuses on his way to the White House. Call me naive if you want (go ahead, I dare you ... the name’s Kevin), but that’s where I currently stand.

MORE: I was just emailing with poputonian, who hopefully will weigh in on this matter later today, and brought up the point that there wasn’t one viable Democratic candidate this year who wouldn’t have done the same thing. Go ahead, look. The only two who would have gone for Lieberman’s throat are Kucinich and Gravel. And, well…

RELATED: The last sentence of this killed. I needed that. You probably do, too.

Posted by Kevin K. on 11/19/08 at 08:25 AM
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

This is a little mavericky, innit?

Cheney, Gonzales indicted for alleged prisoner abuse

(CNN)—Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on separate charges related to alleged prisoner abuse in federal detention centers, Willacy County, Texas, District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra told CNN Tuesday.

The indictment stems from Cheney’s investment in the Vanguard Group—an investment management company that reportedly has interests in the prison companies in charge of the detention centers, according to The Associated Press. It also charges Gonzales halted an investigation into abuse at the detention centers while he was attorney general.

Bob Fertik at Democrats.com says:

… the best part of a Texas indictment is that it can’t be blocked through a Presidential pardon. But we’ll see if “tough-on-crime” Gov. Rick Perry decides to go soft for his powerful friends ...

I’m sure Cheney is laughing his ass off.

Posted by poputonian on 11/18/08 at 08:33 PM
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In a videotaped message to the Bi-Partisan Governors Global Climate Summit this morning, President-elect Obama had this to say:

While I won’t be President at the time of your meeting and while the United States has only one President at a time (wink, wink), I’ve asked members of Congress who are attending the conference as observers to report back to me on what they learn there. And once I take office, you can be sure that the United States will once again engage vigorously in these negotiations, and help lead the world toward a new era of global cooperation on climate change.

In addition to U.S. governors, the conference is host to international delegates from 12 countries.

Obama also pledged to “invest $15 billion each year to catalyze private sector efforts to build a clean energy future,” and cit(ed) specific annual targets on emission reductions.”

Isn’t that a nice change from this:

President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit.As he prepared to fly out from Japan, he told his fellow leaders: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”

Now this is change I can totally believe in.

Update:  More change to believe in!  Steve Benen is reporting that Eric Holder will mostly likely be Obama’s choice for AG.  I was not familiar with him but definitely like everything I am reading.  If you have time be sure to read the speech that is linked to in the article.  You gotta love everything he says about abuse of executive powers and his positions on torture (hint:  He’s not for it.) It’s feeling like a real breath of fresh air is coming in.  Makes me happy enough to dance! 

Posted by marindenver on 11/18/08 at 04:38 PM
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Each day, we see how many items Google finds that include the words: “vastleft” and “bugfucker.”

11/18/08: 50
11/17/08: 24
11/16/08: 23

About vbw (scroll to bottom)…

RELATED: “...the most bloodcurdlingly awful liberal blog out there.”

Posted by Kevin K. on 11/18/08 at 11:20 AM
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BTW, thanks to icebergwedge, The Soup has become a weekly guilty pleasure at the Rumproast HQ.

Posted by Kevin K. on 11/18/08 at 08:58 AM
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Monday, November 17, 2008

...but the Icepick has landed.

Posted by Kevin K. on 11/17/08 at 04:56 PM
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"Your computer’s not screaming, it’s dialing into the internet.”

Part one here.

Posted by Kevin K. on 11/17/08 at 11:32 AM
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Today’s very important PSA: After single-handedly winning Ohio for Obama, Sam is finally back not feeling people and things at I’m Not Feeling You.

Posted by Kevin K. on 11/17/08 at 10:45 AM
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(furtive whisper) “It’s me.  Chief Editor Korir.  Open up man.  I got the Michelle tapes.”
(knocks)
(from inside) “Who is it?”
(furtive whisper) “It’s me, Chief Editor Korir, man.  Open up.  I got the tapes.”
(from inside) “Who?”
(furtive whisper) “Chief Editor Korir, man.  Open up.  I think WordPress and the API commenters saw me come in here.”
(knocks)
(from inside) “Who is it?”
(furtive whisper) “It’s Chief Editor Korir, man.  Will you open up?  I got the MICHELLE tapes with me!”
(from inside) “Who?”
(furtive whisper) “Chief Editor Korir!!!”
(from inside) “Chief Editor Korir?”
(furtive whisper) “Yes, man, yes.  Chief Editor Korir!”
(from inside) “Chief Editor Korir’s not here.”
(furtive whisper) “No, man, no!  I’m Chief Editor Korir and I’ve got the TAPES with me.  Open up!”
(from inside) “Who?”
(furtive whisper) “Chief Editor Korir!”
(from inside) “Chief Editor Korir?”
(furtive whisper) “Yes!  Yes!  Chief Editor Korir!  With the tapes!”
(from inside) “Chief Editor Korir’s not here.”
(sounds of mob growing closer)
(footsteps receding as Chief Editor Korir flees)

Posted by marindenver on 11/17/08 at 09:01 AM
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Each day, we see how many items Google finds that include the words: “vastleft” and “bugfucker.”

11/17/08: 24
11/16/08: 23

About vbw (scroll to bottom)…

Posted by Kevin K. on 11/17/08 at 08:49 AM
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Very cool (and somewhat gruesome), low budget stop-animation video from NYC’s Appalachian stomp masters O’Death. This is “Lowtide” from their new album Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin:

Posted by Kevin K. on 11/17/08 at 08:33 AM
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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Saw this at afterdowningstreet:

One sunny day in January, 2009, an old man approached the White
 House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d been sitting
 on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and
 said, ‘I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.’

The Marine looked at the man and said, ‘Sir, Mr. Bush is no longer 
president and no longer resides here.’

The old man said, ‘Okay’ and walked away.

The following day, the same man approached the White House and said 
to the same Marine, ‘I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.’

The Marine again told the man, ‘Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Bush is no 
longer president and no longer resides here.’

The man thanked him and, again, just walked away.

The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke 
to the very same U.S. Marine, saying ‘I would like to go in and meet
 with President Bush.’

The Marine, understandably annoyed at this point, looked at the man 
and said, ‘Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking 
to speak to Mr. Bush. I’ve told you already that Mr. Bush is no longer 
the president and no longer resides here! Don’t you understand?’

The old man looked at the Marine with a big smile and said, ‘Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it.’

The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, ‘See you tomorrow,
 Sir.’

Posted by poputonian on 11/16/08 at 04:12 PM
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Each day, we see how many items Google finds that include the words: “vastleft” and “bugfucker.”

11/16/08: 23

About vbw (scroll to bottom)…

Posted by Kevin K. on 11/16/08 at 12:41 PM
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