This is the part we see
Building upon what Thers wrote, either four years or nine days ago (this campaign does seem to condense six months into one day) on quite a few blogs:
1. Eloquence is bad.
2. Fear is good.
3. Someone’s like Kennedy, that’s now bad — except when it’s Kennedy-like in my candidate which is teh awesome.
4. No matter what is said, it clearly implies that your candidate is a racist and/or sexist, probably both.
5. Your candidate is too black, or not black enough — or too manly, or too womanly — all at the same time.
6. Your candidate’s supporters are clearly worse than my candidate’s supporters. It sure seems like they start most of the baseless criticism — as opposed to my candidate’s supporters’ worthy concerns.
7. Your candidate is like McGovern.
8. And also like Nixon.
9. Someone’s like FDR, also bad, except for the good parts.
10. You know who was a good speaker? Hitler! Now I know that Lincoln and Roosevelt were good speakers too, but still you know what that means? Your candidate is just like Hitler, and not like anyone else who ever spoke well. And unlike any other time, this time it’s perfectly legitimate to play the Hitler card.
11. Your candidate has no substance — and no, I will not look at their effing website, I know what I know, because I can feel it and pundits tell me.
12. You are in a cult.
13. No you are.
14. Boy, is your blog going to look bad in the archives.
15. Your number 14 above is both sexist and racist. And you know who liked to make lists? Hitler.
(picture from Today is a Good Day)
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Whew! Glad you found that 15th item!
337 everybody!
Morning, Attaturk….
Obama met privately with Edwards in Chapel Hill yesterday, Monday, according to NPR’s Morning Edition…
Your humor! You do lists like George Carlin, yet confuse me like Carrot Top?!
Love this post – but # 16 sucks.
Meanwhile, Chimpy’s handing out mosquito nets in Arusha, Tanzania this morn…according to NPR’s Morning Edition…
Good morning, pups. God help me, it’s Kristol day. At least Mr. Krugman is around too. Bill “AWATT” Kristol says that Democrats should read Kipling. He says a 1942 essay by George Orwell offers a highly qualified appreciation of the then (and still) politically incorrect Rudyard Kipling. The thing is so full of shit on so many levels as to be unreadable. The Times should issue an apology for it. Mr. Krugman’s column is titled “Poverty Is Poison,” and he says to be poor in America today, even more than in the past, is to be an outcast in your own country. And that, the neuroscientists tell us, is what poisons a child’s brain.
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. It’s raining here, but we’re not getting the bad storms that folks were hit with further to the north and west. Have a good day.
Great Post….I needed this this morning
707
Good one, Attaturk! Nothing like a *g* to start the day.
For your morning amusement I give you the fact that the Heritage Foundation, who yesterday amused us all by misspelling “extension” by using “extention” in the running clock detailing to the fractions of seconds how much closer to death we are because the FISA “extention” failed have corrected the spelling. However, in order to do so it appears that they had to re-do the entire thing and so now we are informed, as of approximately 10 seconds ago, that the “extension” expired 6 hours, 21 minutes and 10 seconds ago. I could have sworn yesterday they had it at over 18 hours…
#16 “did not! – did so!”
Is it tomorrow we are all dead? or today sometime?
can I still get in observing 65 orbits?
#17 No matter what happens, it’s all good for the republicans
#18. Are we there yet? – are we?, are we?
And we’re still here! Wheeeee, I feel so much better.
Can’t believe you’ve already got sparrowgrass for eating; yummers.
#19. All Democrats are DFHs, except for progressives, who are fascists. I know this because the Doughy Pantload told me so.
I was somewhat amazed at seeing the first stalks poking up too. I expanded the patch during the winter, and I’m waiting for Burpee to send me more 2 year old roots. There is no such thing as too much asparagus! (And if I ever DO have too much our next-door neighbors have been eying it a drooling so I know the excess will go to a good home.)
*raising hand* (if you’re ever in need of another good home)
And because he seems to fit in so well with Kristol, the Times offers us an update on Little Joey Short Ride today.
It’s Morningtime!
here’s what’s on Washington Journal this morning:
7am – Newspaper Articles & Viewer Calls
7:30am – Bob Benenson, CQPolitics.com, Editor
8:30am – Newspaper Articles & Viewer Calls
9am – David Callender, Capitol Times of Madison, Political Reporter
9:30am – Jeffrey Passel, Pew Research Center, Senior Research Associate | Report [pdf. U.S. Population Projections: 2005 - 2008]
The Guardian has an item which explains european attitude about GMO’s if anyone is interested why US agricultural products are not selling outside the US – another trade item off the table.
I absolutely love the pic for your post Attaturk, it’s just so right.
The Europeans will eat our GM food if we have to shove it down their throats, dammit!
Good Morning, Marion, Thanks for reading Kristol so we don’t have to. It’s hard to imagine somebody paying him to write. Also, I’m trying to imagine what excess asparagus would look like.
I was about to say that they’d have to shove it down my throat too, until I realized that I’ve probably been consuming it already. Frankenfood… what’s not to love?
choices, choices, profits for monsanto or foreign trade earnings offsetting balance of trade deficits, let me think, let me think (J Benny’s your money or your life kinda voice)
that was Elliot @ 22
I posted about Kristol today at my regular blog.
I have so few opportunities to call someone Gunga Dim
Oh, Attaturk, I bow before thee…. Gunga Dim. 707! (The thing is, if that putz had ever actually read Kipling, instead of reading ABOUT him…) Oh, well.
ooh goody, I love to hate the bloody Kristol
Shorter Kristol on Kipling: Cheering on needless wars, botching them, and keeping them going eternally, surely the “extremely” white man’s burden.
Godwin!
The USDA is currently putting together new guidelines on GM that are expected to be completed by the end of the year. Currently, no GM crops that produce industrial chemicals or pharma crops are grown commercially, although there are some field trials under way in the US.
So….booosh’s USDA is gonna guideline us; why am I not reassured?
Arnie,
See this?
http://www.reuters.com/article…..7220080218
Contaminated meat found by a Humane Society investigation.
This is the impact of deregulation.
Schoolchildren fed meat from cows too sick to stand.
That list there is pretty much why I don’t bother reading DailyKos lately…
Thanks for the much-needed humor, Attaturk!
Sickening, isn’t it??
Q: How many University of Chicago economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None.
Not funny anymore
Attaturk,
The photos on that site (picture from Today is a Good Day), especially the white peacocks, are amazing. Thank you for the introduction.
IIRC Mad Cow (bovine encephalitis) was traced back to Maggoty Thatcher’s non-enforcement of standards for industrial production of animal feeds. Should tell something about that bankrupt idea of governance, the Atlantic isn’t wide enough for that infection to spread. What is worst, Brown in GB, Sarkosy in France, Putin in Russia, the Germans have Merkle, and it looks like Berloscone(sp) is set for a comeback in Italy, the majority of first world countries are under the political domination of the bankrupt corporatists. On the other hand ….
16. THE KAISER IS STEALING MY STRIIIIIING!
Would the George the turd in the Whitehouse not qualify?
Hard as it is to believe, Bush hasn’t quoted Kipling much.
but… but…. don’t he got or bought letters after his name from Yale AND Harvard – do they still educate anymore?
never trust the letters.
I figured some of the letters would include: an Es, a Haich, maybe an eye, definitely a Tee and a forBrains in there as well.
Speaking of Your Candidate Sucks, Larry C. Johnson ran a substantive post at Huffpo on Saturday:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..87036.html
Diagramming the three biggest problems in Obama’s background how the Republican poo-trebuchets will be positioned for attack.
It should be required reading for all Obama supporters (especially the ones in the comments who attacked Johnson).
Me, I’m gonna wear a raincoat and watch through binoculars to see how the rookie has trained up for these killer plays.