Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Governor Palin’s Reading List Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that “some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies.” It might be worth asking Governor Palin for a tally of the other favorites from her reading list. And that shocking revelation is just one more…
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TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Campaign: McCain “Would Rather Lose His Integrity Than Lose An Election” TPM notes that Obama’s campaign hit McCain where he lives.. on the “honor and integrity” meme that’s part of his maverick-hero image. This is after his appearance on The View, where Joy Behar told McCain that a lot of his oft-repeated campaign statements are lies. Right to his face. I love Joy. Today on “The View,” John McCain defended his campaign’s latest ad campaign, which has been debunked repeatedly as both false and sleazy. In running the sleaziest campaign since…
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One Utah » Blog Archive » McCain Caught Lying Again, Today. Yep, it turns out there are no official estimates of the size of the crowds he’s attracting to his rallies. His campaign staff cites fire marshals and Secret Service personnel, but actual fire marshals and Secret Service spokespersons contacted by reporters deny supplying the McCain people with crowd size estimates. Meanwhile, his staff now insist it’s never been about the size of the crowds, it’s what McCain does with them that counts. Audience envy. It’s not pretty.
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Dave Walker, Cartoonist of Lambeth, received a “cease and desist” letter from a current owner of the British SPCK chain of Christian bookshops. He has removed all content from his blog pertaining to the odd and ongoing story of how an Anglican bookstore chain got turned over to a group of Texans of the Orthodox faith for a song. And how a lot of people lost their jobs over the last year or so, and how one young man was driven to despair and committed suicide, all because this strangely fundamentalist Orthodox group decided to gut the bookshops, fire the…
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You can watch Act One and then you can go “squeeeee!!!” to your heart’s content. Also, “W0000000t!1!!” Who knew that Nathan Fillion could sing? Let alone Neil Patrick Harris? Oh, teh hawt. Thanks, Super***Dave! What’s your super power? I have two: clutter, and multitasking. Technorati Tags: Joss Whedon, Neil Patrick Harris, Nathon Fillion, Dr Horrible
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I really needed a good laugh – work has been stressing me out for weeks (can’t really blog about that) and some issues with one niece have been making me feel kind of helpless and sad and not a little indignant (can’t really blog about that, in the interests of family harmony, either). Sorry, I have a boring, stressful life, and I’m too busy at work, and I tend to do as little as possible at home to make up for it. At least at the moment. But this made me laugh, as it’s one of those things that makes…
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Via the Mad Priest at Of course, I could be wrong…:say goodbye, it’s independence day
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A couple of years ago, I toyed with the idea of recasting the Declaration of Independence, but it wouldn’t have been as good as this. There’s a video, too. Firedoglake » Rabble Rousers Post Subversive “Declaration†in NYT INDEPENDENCE DAYJuly 4, 1776 – 2008 When in the course of human events the government becomes destructive of the ends for which it was established, it is the Right of the People to alter it and demand restoration of those Constitutional Principles that have so long assured their Liberty, Safety, and Happiness. Therefore, on the anniversary of our Independence, we offer this…
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The posts that went up on BoingBoing’s “BBtv” section started early this year: this crazy French-German guy was trying to become the next big American action hero. But who was he? Really? Here’s the most recent BBtv video: BBtv – Klaus Pierre: Super Pretty Action Hero Star – Boing Boing There are links to earlier videos, and then if you search YouTube there are other videos, uploaded by the great Klaus Pierre himself. Some of them are very puzzling, as they are completely in French. What? you mean he’s really FRENCH? Intriguing. And then the profile points to his website,…
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Recently, Dave over at DDtB noted that Google Reader’s shared items can scroll off one’s web page widget pretty quickly, but that it set up a fairly nice unordered list if you copied it off the widget for further commentary on your blog. And so it does, especially if you choose Paste Special > Remove MS Word formatting, which also removes Mozilla- and Google-added style elements. This is handy if you have a number of links grouped together and want to grab them for a quick omnibus post. Not so easy if they’ve already scrolled off the widget and are on either your…