Aloha, Ian!

She couldn’t be that much worse than the other options that present themselves.

How pathetic is that?

Good for her!!!

Will Paris enter the Miss Buffalo Chip contest…? ;-)

Hello CTuttle.

Can she keep a secret, or will we be able to see the tapes? (Heh)

Bob in HI

She should go for a Pat Paulsen.

Who knew she could read?

Wow, easily the most substantive campaign ad to date.

#1 story on Countdown: The Miss Buffalo Chip contest.

We are SO past the silly season.

Who knew she could read?

That puts her a notch above Bush and McBush Lite.

This video has changed my opinion of Paris Hilton….. here all this time I thought she was an airhead without anything more serious than what color of shoes to wear today…….

Paris Hilton is one of those people who when she doesn’t say much says a mouthful.

Rachel, *swoon*, brought up a very good point… McCain had read that off a prepared script…! ;-)

Ian,
How does one satirize situations as ludicrous as we find ourselves these days?

It seems sometimes that The Onion has been far better at predictions than any of the so-called pundits who are actually supposed to know what they are talking about.

Nope, I am going to quit here, Paris Hilton is way too easy of a target and my mind is so far in the gutter already, all I am going to do is get in trouble with this one.
Thanks for the softballs though.

and the real question is whether or not he’s reading it cold—does he look at it ahead of time and maybe ask questions or does he just stand up and read whatever they put in front of him?

Brittany for Veep!

It’s hard. Incredulity overload. Heinlein said that when people looked back on this period (and he was talking about these few decades) that they would decide we were all clinically insane. He’s looking more and more prescient.

Question:
Does anyone think conserving energy is painful?

I have been buying florescence lights at Costco a package at a time…. I think in a year I have replace all the lights in the house and the cost was spread across the year……

In a state where my power bill in August can be over $400.00, I have programmable thermostat, a special timer for the pool that saves energy and only use lights in the room I am in.

Is that painful? not so much….
I don’t get it….. anyone want to give me a clue…..

Heh, I’d fire the writer for not doing their homework… Interesting that he mangled it at every juncture, too…!

Heineken may be more the thing

Boy is Dan Abrams taking McBush apart…… even getting Pat Buchanan to agree that Obama is right…..

I blame Canada.

Well now I know who to write in as a protest vote, should Obama go too far in peeing all over us liberals.

Yeah, it’s been quite a few years since I read a lot of Heinlein but do recall him going off on some times of the world where the religious types gained control over the government and everything was bit over the top.

Of course, I also recall, I believe in Vonnegut’s Player Piano, a scenario where things had gotten so bad, that we just started electing actors as President because they looked good on camera and fit the image we as a country wanted to project.

He’s another who was pretty good at predicting how low we could fall.

Paris’s energy plan, probably put in the can before Obama compromised, is essentially Obama’s post-compromise plan.

According to TPM, Obama has slipped behind McLame by apx. the margin of error. I said before and I’ll say again, someone should tell Obama that while he’s been busy racing McLame for the most centrist, the voting population has been moving more to the left. Seems they’re leaving him. And I don’t think they’re going toward McSame. Disappointment in your former chosen candidate can breed empty voting booths in the fall and far less likely voters in the polls.

Agree 100%…. you can almost feel the left loosing interest and their fire…. that will tank the whole thing….

Living in SoCal, I just worry about the people living in freezing temperatures needing heat, and the people living in the desert needing cooling. I can survive with neither, and use them very little.

Sinclair was pretty prescient too…

I enjoyed the video, and my estimation of Paris Hilton has gone up exponentially.

She took the lemons McCain handed her, made lemonade out of them, and made him look like a fool in the process.

-S

Excuse me while I faint..ok, I’m back…Abrams called BO smooooothe….

Obama will pick up conservatives as time goes on, because McCain has, as of today, I think with the Miss Buffalo Turd nomination of his wife, really stepped in it badly….plus, the man is a frikkin’ robot reciting Bushco talkers…the public is not that stupid…right? Right? They aren’t that stupid, right? Tell me I’m right! Gawd…. :(

Anyone who votes for McBush should be ridiculed relentlessly…

As was the other Sinclair—Lewis.

Still having nightmares over It Can’t Happen Here.. It told the tale we are living. Not good. Not good at all.

Speaking of fabulous women…

New post

You are taking about the low information voter…… they aren’t going to hear this…..see this….. they are going to hear O’Liely, Hannity, Limpball and Savage ……. they will have no clue…….

These are the ones who still believe that Saddam had something to do with 911, that WMD’s were founds and that Obama is a muslimantichristwhitehatereletistfrenchlover……

They are that stupid and will vote for him. Unless they see a true contrast.

How about a candidate that stands up for principles and doesn’t compromise them? Ya think people might vote for such a candidate?

I would.

Barr looking better by the day.

The only economist who dares to show it, the bare truth, as it really is.

Ian Welsh!

Most economists are dour, unimaginative sorts, for whom humor is a foreign embarrassment. They are, most often, uninspired teachers as well.

Ian can take ordinary people doing simple, ordinary things, and thereby show us, with elan and panache, what the real world is like, or more often, what it should be like.

Sometimes, when he bursts bubbles, for example, it is a wee bit disappointing, but for perspective, for breadth and especially for depth, there is no living economist who can hold a candle to Ian, or a flashlight, for that matter.

How better to gain a true comparison between the candidates, than to place them alongside those whose ideas are more sound as well as fiscally far more attractive, in terms of being ‘daring’, than the staid, stolid, pronouncements of the timid or ‘cautious’?

Note: My respect for Ian is genuine and very deep.

For Mc$ame I have none, for Obama ’tis tepid at best, and cooling rapidly. I’m amazed that PH appears to have a sense of humor, if not a whole lot of class.

What’s even more amazing is the truth of Ian’s assessment of their relative energy policies.

What is wrong with Obama?

Everybody capable of coherent thought knows what’s ‘right’ with Mc$ame.

Hey, Pars is only having a little fun… injecting a little humor into the campaign.

Ask Happy Lieberman - he appreciates jokes about white-haired mummies running for president.

Bur Paris some serious advise - there is only one choice for your V.P.

Dan Quayle

Dan will totallye rocke !!!

RevDeb@36
In NYS I get a free protest, and Barr will make great cocktail party provocation. But that doesn’t make him honorable. Remember impeachiness. And remember Libertarians are truly nuts on everything except constitution & war.

Thank goddess they aren’t part of the 79% of Americans that do pay attention and who are against the war and are understanding by virtue of $4 per gallon that something is seriously wrong in this country….

That would be my take on it. Let the O’lielies and Limpballs believe what they will…there will always be people like that…

Great Platform, Paris … Drilling offshore until electric cars arrive

Except for one minor hitch.

We’ll all be driving electric cars before the first offshore gakllon is delivered.

(No more offshore platform available for AT LEAST 5 years. Then add ten years to that.)

As Happy Lieberman would say

“Oil Veh!”

Did you get the notice that after the, what was it, 20% or 25% increase in electrical bills last year, this year they’re going back to the Corporation Commission for another turn? My house is under 1,200 sq.ft., but I’ve been paying $215 since Dec. because they miscalculated my payment amount for my budget plan last year. Now they just lowered my payment to $203/mo.

They’ll see it, we all have friends and family with email addresses. Make this thing go viral.

I agree. It was funny, clever and made McCain’s ad look lame. He sure slipped and fell in it at that biker’s rally, just couldn’t pull it together.