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At least according to Politico.
I expect to wake up and find out that John McCain changed his tiepin or something.
I expect to wake up and find out that John McCain changed his tiepin or something.
Barney Frank kicks the shit out of BillO.
Money quote: As for going on O’Reilly’s show in the future, Frank says he’s up for it. “Either you can have a rational conversation or he can show what a jerk he is again. In either case, that’s fine with me,” Frank said. I love that the hilarious byproduct of our economy collapsing has been Barney Frank getting lots and lots of airtime.
From a Norwegian newspaper: Young Barack Obama helps a stranger by paying for her excess baggage on an airplane flight. Stop being so full of values, young man, it's unAmerican!
Money quote: As for going on O’Reilly’s show in the future, Frank says he’s up for it. “Either you can have a rational conversation or he can show what a jerk he is again. In either case, that’s fine with me,” Frank said. I love that the hilarious byproduct of our economy collapsing has been Barney Frank getting lots and lots of airtime.
From a Norwegian newspaper: Young Barack Obama helps a stranger by paying for her excess baggage on an airplane flight. Stop being so full of values, young man, it's unAmerican!
SARAH PALIN WHYWHYWHY
Oct. 4th, 2008 11:52 pm"In November, all of us who consider ourselves progressive - yeah, at the same time, we can be conservative - we're gonna shatter the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America."
asdfgh *foams at mouth* No. Just. No.
"I'm reading on my Starbucks mocha cup, ok? The quote of the day... It was Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State [crowd boos] and UN ambassador. ... Now she said it, I didn't. She said, 'There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women.'"
I HOPE YOU BRING TANNING LOTION.
I don't need to go to the gym. Reading the DailyPailyFail is enough to get my heart rate up.
Also, for what good God reason would a crowd of 'feminists' boo Madeleine Albright? And surely Former Secretary Albright's said something more relevant than off a Starbuck's coffee cup?
I not-so-secretly think this is all Hillary's fault. I bet she nukes her own brains over this stuff much worse than I do. I feel like I should write her sympathy card.
asdfgh *foams at mouth* No. Just. No.
"I'm reading on my Starbucks mocha cup, ok? The quote of the day... It was Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State [crowd boos] and UN ambassador. ... Now she said it, I didn't. She said, 'There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women.'"
I HOPE YOU BRING TANNING LOTION.
I don't need to go to the gym. Reading the DailyPailyFail is enough to get my heart rate up.
Also, for what good God reason would a crowd of 'feminists' boo Madeleine Albright? And surely Former Secretary Albright's said something more relevant than off a Starbuck's coffee cup?
I not-so-secretly think this is all Hillary's fault. I bet she nukes her own brains over this stuff much worse than I do. I feel like I should write her sympathy card.
10 Minutes on Foreclosed Houses
Oct. 3rd, 2008 12:42 pmInteresting. We have the green pool problem partially because my mom does all the yard maintenance, or lack thereof, and when she was in the hospital my father and I didn't know how to fix it. (Apparently my sister does, but she spent those two weeks in California with her boyfriend on a surfing trip.)
So I keep dumping shock in the pool ever week or so, but I'm starting to advocate for draining it.
In the mean time: my sister is currently on the outs with her man and just got a full-time job selling snowboards and women's apparel at Sports Chalet.
Reading Material of the Day
Oct. 3rd, 2008 12:35 amRolling Stone's lengthy character piece on John McCain.
Scary, scary stuff. Most of which you SHOULD know by now, but puts all the scary sad stuff about his failbot military career and his flip flopping in Congress in context with his personal life. If you thought the Shrub was fucked in the head, well, damn.
The New Yorker endorses Obama.
At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness. It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. That leader’s name is Barack Obama.
Scary, scary stuff. Most of which you SHOULD know by now, but puts all the scary sad stuff about his failbot military career and his flip flopping in Congress in context with his personal life. If you thought the Shrub was fucked in the head, well, damn.
The New Yorker endorses Obama.
At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness. It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. That leader’s name is Barack Obama.
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Oct. 2nd, 2008 11:42 pmLIVEJOURNAL NEVER LEAVE ME EVER AGAIN. *hugs her crazy Russian overlord*
Anyway: have now finished episode three and four of John Adams. I was going to post longish thoughts about them, except I've forgotten most of it. Episode Three was a bit of a chore to sit through because it was all about how Adams was a big old tool.
Meanwhile, Episode Four was AMAZINGLY GREAT. I did not know that John Adams/Thomas Jefferson was also an OT3 with Abigale Adams! Er, and the bit where George Washington gets sworn in basically made me want to be there. (Plus, apparently Americans had learned hygiene.)
Anyway: have now finished episode three and four of John Adams. I was going to post longish thoughts about them, except I've forgotten most of it. Episode Three was a bit of a chore to sit through because it was all about how Adams was a big old tool.
Meanwhile, Episode Four was AMAZINGLY GREAT. I did not know that John Adams/Thomas Jefferson was also an OT3 with Abigale Adams! Er, and the bit where George Washington gets sworn in basically made me want to be there. (Plus, apparently Americans had learned hygiene.)
Okay, let's play American History AP:
Oct. 2nd, 2008 08:06 pmWe shall find that the God of Israel is among us, when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies; when He shall make us a praise and glory that men shall say of succeeding plantations, "may the Lord make it like that of New England." For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.
--John Winthrop, 1630.
And that's about all I have to say tonight. Except for one thng. The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the "shining city upon a hill." The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early freedom man. He journeyed here on what today we'd call a little wooden boat; and like the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free.
--Ronald Reagan, 1989.
FUCK YOU PALIN. EVEN REAGAN SOURCED SHIT. HE WOULD BE SO SAD.
--John Winthrop, 1630.
And that's about all I have to say tonight. Except for one thng. The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the "shining city upon a hill." The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early freedom man. He journeyed here on what today we'd call a little wooden boat; and like the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free.
--Ronald Reagan, 1989.
FUCK YOU PALIN. EVEN REAGAN SOURCED SHIT. HE WOULD BE SO SAD.
Everyone Loves the Supremes!
Oct. 1st, 2008 06:09 pmThe Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic to your LJ. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) For those who see this on your f-list, take the meme to your OWN LJ to spread the fun.
Well, okay! Truly, the greatest thing about Sarah Palin's fail is that we got the greatest new game ever: randomly shouting out Supreme Court cases to your friends and family!
My favorite SCOTUS case is Marbury v. Madison. It basically has to do with the most EPIC PRESIDENTIAL WANKFEST EVER, otherwise known as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson's breakup. (Don't worry, bbs, they get back together at the end. Spoilers!)
Ironically, the reason I love the case is because it establishes Judicial Review, the right of the Supreme Court to decide if a law is Constitutional. Believe it or not, when they wrote the Constitution they kind of left most of the bits about the Supreme Court blank because they figured they'd like, work on that bit later. So all the later bits of the Supreme Court's occasionally well-deserved Awesome Sauce depends on this one single wanky case about Adams stuffing the appellate courts at the last moment and then Jefferson saying 'no wai'.
Politics: it's more fun as a fandom.
Finally, because "The Supremes" just might be my favorite episode of The West Wing, a line that makes my heart soar:
Well, okay! Truly, the greatest thing about Sarah Palin's fail is that we got the greatest new game ever: randomly shouting out Supreme Court cases to your friends and family!
My favorite SCOTUS case is Marbury v. Madison. It basically has to do with the most EPIC PRESIDENTIAL WANKFEST EVER, otherwise known as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson's breakup. (Don't worry, bbs, they get back together at the end. Spoilers!)
Ironically, the reason I love the case is because it establishes Judicial Review, the right of the Supreme Court to decide if a law is Constitutional. Believe it or not, when they wrote the Constitution they kind of left most of the bits about the Supreme Court blank because they figured they'd like, work on that bit later. So all the later bits of the Supreme Court's occasionally well-deserved Awesome Sauce depends on this one single wanky case about Adams stuffing the appellate courts at the last moment and then Jefferson saying 'no wai'.
Politics: it's more fun as a fandom.
Finally, because "The Supremes" just might be my favorite episode of The West Wing, a line that makes my heart soar:
Bartlet:
Plenty of good law written by the voice of moderation.
Mulready:
Who writes the extraordinary dissent? The one man minority opinion whose
time hasn't come but 20 years later some circuit court clerk digs it up at
3 in the morning. Brenden railing against censorship. Harlen's jeremiad on Jim Crowe.
JED
Maybe you some day?
CHRISTOPHER
They can't put me on the court, just like you can't put Evelyn Lang on the
court. It's Sheltons from here on in.
Politics Stuff
Sep. 28th, 2008 09:47 pmStill continuing: Maureen Dowd still thinks Barack Obama could be 'Sorkinier'.
Charlie Stross thinks the USA's future is too unstable to predict.
Over in the Guardian:
A new world is coming into being almost unnoticed, where America is only one of several great powers, facing an uncertain future it can no longer shape.
More or less.
The Barack Obama plan for science.
Charlie Stross thinks the USA's future is too unstable to predict.
Over in the Guardian:
A new world is coming into being almost unnoticed, where America is only one of several great powers, facing an uncertain future it can no longer shape.
More or less.
The Barack Obama plan for science.
But at least Barney Frank still rocks?
Sep. 25th, 2008 07:20 pmSo I was making dinner and telling my dad all about how much ass Barney Frank's been kicking all day...
... to come back to Mr. Frank and Mr. Dodd holding a badass impromptu press conference in the House saying that the Republicans WALKED from the meeting because they wanted to add a Capitol Gains tax cut to the bill and the Dems said 'fuck no, bullshit'.
Oh, and we just bought Washington Mutual.
... W.T.F. It was a goddamn hour.
... to come back to Mr. Frank and Mr. Dodd holding a badass impromptu press conference in the House saying that the Republicans WALKED from the meeting because they wanted to add a Capitol Gains tax cut to the bill and the Dems said 'fuck no, bullshit'.
Oh, and we just bought Washington Mutual.
... W.T.F. It was a goddamn hour.
Stuff I liked:
Sep. 24th, 2008 10:14 pmThis chart on legal immigration to the United States from Reason. Mainly because having to work with My Previously Crazy Not!Boss and having to listen to her talk racist smack all day made me long for something like this that I could tape to her forehead.
In conclusion: IMMIGRATION = NOT AS EASY AS YOU THINK IT IS.
More cute Mad Men illustrations!
I think I might buy that one of Joan and the Copier.
Wired article on the utter timelessness that is Weird Al Yankovich.
In conclusion: IMMIGRATION = NOT AS EASY AS YOU THINK IT IS.
More cute Mad Men illustrations!
I think I might buy that one of Joan and the Copier.
Wired article on the utter timelessness that is Weird Al Yankovich.
More Breaking News:
Sep. 24th, 2008 02:17 pmObama Camp: Fuck that noise, we're debating on Friday.
Keith Olbermann takes John McCain's spot on Letterman tonight.
I believe that is what we here on the internets like to call 'net plus win'.
Keith Olbermann takes John McCain's spot on Letterman tonight.
I believe that is what we here on the internets like to call 'net plus win'.
WHAT WHAT WHAT
Sep. 24th, 2008 12:24 pmJohn McCain suspending campaign to go back to Congress and work on bailout bill. Barack Obama followed suit about three minutes later.
NO DEBATE? FUCK I ALREADY BOUGHT THE NACHOS.
(Well, no. More like I had already budgeted for the booze.)
NO DEBATE? FUCK I ALREADY BOUGHT THE NACHOS.
(Well, no. More like I had already budgeted for the booze.)
No, wait a minute...
Sep. 20th, 2008 10:14 pmLulz are not over for the night.
Maureen Dowd hands column over to Sorkin's epic Bartlet/Obama fic.
What? I am NOT EVEN JOKING. What the fucking fuck tonight.
Maureen Dowd hands column over to Sorkin's epic Bartlet/Obama fic.
What? I am NOT EVEN JOKING. What the fucking fuck tonight.
What Keith Olbermann Said:
Sep. 4th, 2008 09:01 pmMostly because I'm sensitive to people (like Keith obviously was) getting triggered by UNEXPECTED 9/11.
(I have complex feelings on the issue of the photographs of people jumping from the WTC. It would make for an interesting topic in a photojournalism class, at any rate.)
Bristol Palin IS pregnant
Sep. 1st, 2008 10:47 amSo there we are, then.
So that clears that rumor up quite a bit then, doesn't it?
I wish the poor girl the best of luck with it and hope that the marriage works out for her.
In the meantime, bets on the table as to how much longer before Palin withdraws from the ticket? Or are you part of the rare few who thinks she'll stick it out?
So that clears that rumor up quite a bit then, doesn't it?
I wish the poor girl the best of luck with it and hope that the marriage works out for her.
In the meantime, bets on the table as to how much longer before Palin withdraws from the ticket? Or are you part of the rare few who thinks she'll stick it out?
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Aug. 31st, 2008 08:39 pmCrazy political rumor of the day: McCain only picked Palin so that he can dump her and pick Jindal when he proves to get Louisiana through the storm. (Wish I could find a really good link for this one, just trust me, it's going around.)
Obama Tiem Is Nigh
Aug. 13th, 2008 09:20 amI think his Veep choice is going to be the Governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius. Based purely on the spoiler that she's scheduled to speak at the convention but they haven't revealled WHEN she's speaking yet. I mean, c'mon guys.
Also, a note for the future. "West Wing Writers" is the name of a new Dem speechwriting-for-hire group and does NOT necessarily mean what I think it means. So I shouldn't immediately snap out that 'that guy never wrote a script in his LIFE'. (Clever name, guys.)
I love Joshua Green (of the Atlantic)'s reporting because it always strikes me as a polished up political version of Fandom_Wank. I think the latest story about Hillary Clinton's Epic Fail is the best one yet, not least because at the end he provides screencaptures of all the snarky memos.
Also, a note for the future. "West Wing Writers" is the name of a new Dem speechwriting-for-hire group and does NOT necessarily mean what I think it means. So I shouldn't immediately snap out that 'that guy never wrote a script in his LIFE'. (Clever name, guys.)
I love Joshua Green (of the Atlantic)'s reporting because it always strikes me as a polished up political version of Fandom_Wank. I think the latest story about Hillary Clinton's Epic Fail is the best one yet, not least because at the end he provides screencaptures of all the snarky memos.
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Aug. 8th, 2008 04:11 pm"Doomsday" was on Sci-fi and as I was waiting for my facial mask to dry and had already gotten my schadenfreude on from it turns out that the National Enquirer may know its shit after all, I decided that was a good use of my time. These are some thoughts:
1. It's totally cheery that the episode ends with DONNA. It makes the last thirty seconds so optimistic. Don't cry, Emo!Ten, Donna's there to be awesome.
2. Hilarious is the Sci Fi channel's bad edits, especially when they cut from Billie Piper ruining her mascara right to a commercial for no-run mascara.
3. I'm gonna spend some time thinking about this again, because the Breaking Dawn Twatlight wank has brought it up fresh for me, but isn't it kind of depressing how much emphasis is put on 'the ordinary people' sometimes? It makes me wonder how many people are out there waiting for a vampire to show up/the TARDIS/to get accepted into Hogwarts instead of trying hard every day to be awesome in the world we get.
(And that's why Lyra Belaqcua kicks everyone's ass, the end.)
1. It's totally cheery that the episode ends with DONNA. It makes the last thirty seconds so optimistic. Don't cry, Emo!Ten, Donna's there to be awesome.
2. Hilarious is the Sci Fi channel's bad edits, especially when they cut from Billie Piper ruining her mascara right to a commercial for no-run mascara.
3. I'm gonna spend some time thinking about this again, because the Breaking Dawn Twatlight wank has brought it up fresh for me, but isn't it kind of depressing how much emphasis is put on 'the ordinary people' sometimes? It makes me wonder how many people are out there waiting for a vampire to show up/the TARDIS/to get accepted into Hogwarts instead of trying hard every day to be awesome in the world we get.
(And that's why Lyra Belaqcua kicks everyone's ass, the end.)
