Meanwhile, in the EVIL Universe....

It's always important to take a step back from your day and to day and consider some of things you're grateful for. Example: Imagine if these two clowns were in charge. I suspect the Earth would already be a flaming ball of "salvation", just a'waiting for the Lord to come on down and fix it up. 

My friends, take this as proof that while we may be living in an Evil Reality, it gets a lot Eviler. Count your blessings!

Seriously, I shudder at this concept. Shudder IN TERROR!

Safe as Seven Houses

I know, I know, any of us in "Streets Paved with Gold" America could forget how many houses we own on any given day. I mean, it's hard work keeping track of that stuff, not to even mention the houses for the kids.


But, as an interesting test of our "Liberal Media", let us see how this story goes -- the story of a rich man from a rich family who dumped a faithful wife for an even richer (and much younger) woman. Let us note how often the hypocrisy of this man calling Barack Obama an "elitist" is pointed out.

Odds are, despite the Democrats attempts to push this issue, it will quickly fade away, abetted by the MSM.


Note! Not that there's anything wrong with owning 4, or 7, or 11 houses. By all means, go for it! But please, don't then call the guy raised by a single white woman an "elitist".

Alas, facts are optional in our new Conservative forged world...

Fleeing to Canada

Terribly cliche I know, but if McSame wins this election, I'm moving to Canada. ;)


Not really.

But that's where I'll be on vacation for a week, faithful readers. With no Internet! Egads, I don't know if I will survive the vapors I'm surely to feel, but if I do, I'll report back in a week.

Till then: Obama 08!

Looney Land

One of the most amazing things the modern Republican party (or at least a subset of it) has done over the past 30 years (see, credit where credit is due!) is to completely dominate the framing of issues to the public.

We don't debate reality, the facts, or the truth; we debate versions of these things, slanted towards the Republican's viewpoint.

This leads to ever greater heights of absurdity, and with our boy Bush generally trashing everything they've worked so hard to build over the past 30 years, the absurdity becomes more apparent.

For example, this cartoon, which aptly sums up the reality of the past 30 years, and puts that reality into the context of today:

That the Republicans bank -- literally, a foundation - on the mantra of attacking their Democratic opponents as "Tax and Spend" liberals. Forget the truth, reality, facts, all of that: They'll say this whether it's true or not, and they will repeat it ad inifinitum.

The truth is of course the Repugs are Spend and Spend politicians, and no average American household could operate this way.

So, the question is: Why does this falsehood continue to live? Why does it still have currency.

Search your feelings, and you will find the answer.

AntiChristastic!

And? Obama is also the AntiChrist. Maybe. Or Paris Hilton. Or a troop hating 3 point machine.

Mockery

It's become fairly clear that the Repuglican's main strategy for the 2008 Presidential election is to mock, mock, and mock some more. There does not seem to be any other strategy or even motivation than mockery.

Take this charming image, an actual fundraising image from McSame's website. They - the entire Repug operation - are mocking Obama for suggesting that everyone ensure their tires are properly inflated and their cars properly tuned in order to save gasoline.

Ha! Can you believe it! Simple steps that anyone could -- and should - do to save themselves money, and save our nation money? What a riot! What a joke! Of course, the Repugs are lying about Obama's position, suggesting that this is the only idea he's offered. But what are lies to Repuglicans? Just tools of the trade.

But gosh! Look at this:

The Bush administration estimates that expanded offshore drilling could increase oil production by 200,000 barrels per day by 2030. We use about 20 million barrels per day, so that would meet about 1% of our demand two decades from now. Meanwhile, efficiency experts say that keeping tires inflated can improve gas mileage by 3%, and regular maintenance can add another 4%. Many drivers already follow their advice, but if everyone else did, we could reduce demand several percentage points immediately. In other words: Obama is right.

In other words, if we all followed Obama's advice to check our tires and engine operation, we could reduce our use of oil as a nation by 7%, immediately. This would have an immediate effect on the cost of gas as well.


But of course, that's ludicrous. Let's start drilling instead.

Media Bias?!

The McCain camp has been whining non-stop about how the media is in love with Obama, and thus are biased, and thus are to blame for Johhny's poor performance so far.

Which is an absolute joke, of course, but hey! It's all in good fun.

McSame has been drinking deep from the Rove cup of late, since the Rove partisans came on board at the end of June.

And with their arrival, come the negative ads, misleading and false, but! McSame doesn't have enough money. What to do, what to do...

From today's NY Times:
WASHINGTON — The number of times Senator John McCain’s new advertisement attacking Senator Barack Obama for canceling a visit with wounded troops in Germany last week has been shown fully or partly on local, national and cable newscasts: well into the hundreds.

The number of times that spot actually, truly ran as a paid commercial: roughly a dozen.

Funny stuff. On Morning Joe today, in the brief 15 minutes I watched, they played the latest RNC "Ad" three times -- all in the name of covering the news, of course.

Hilarious.


Make no mistake: There is a massive double standard here. Imagine if Obama mixed up Sunni and Shia, repeatedly, or referred to non-existing countries, or got critical geography wrong -- gosh, the media might question his foreign policy qualifications, dontchya think? But not McSame's -- cuz it's obvious he's got experience. He was a POW for crying out loud!

Not only the Media, but the entire apparatus of Government will be used against Obama in the upcoming election: Witness the Pentagon and State Department messing with Obama's overseas trip, and with the Pentagon supplying material directly for a McSame negative ad. Which is illegal, of course -- but what does the Law matter to the Republican Party? Nothing, is what. Party over country, country over the law.

Regardless, the media meme has been set: The Media is liberal, biased for Obama; thus, in order to preserve "objectivity" and "fairness", the media will scrutinize everything Obama does, and give McSame a pass on almost everything he does. And oh yeah -- run his TV commericals for him, for free.

McSame

Might as well get used to this picture, because I'll be coming back to it frequently enough.

I used to like McCain, quite a bit -- the McCain that said of the George Bush 2000 SC campaign:

"I believe that there is a special place in hell for people like those."

What happened to that McCain? Oh yeah, he started running for President of the Empire. That'll change ya!

And change he has, flip-flopping all over the place, promising to run an "honorable campaign", with all that Mavericky Straight-Talk he's so famous for (fun drinking game: Drink everytime someone on the news refers to McCain as a "maverick". You'll be three sheets to tha wind a'fore you tack to port). He was for illegal amnesty before he was against it, and will most likely be for it again if his polls tell him he must.

Also, when did he become so whiney? Jeez!