As someone who's a quasi-socialist who happens to be a Democrat only (and I mean ONLY!) because I'm not a Republican, I would love to see an Afro-American man as president with a woman as vice president, or the reverse. Frankly - after the last eight years - the Democrats could run a dead body for president and I'd vote for it. *sigh*

I know I'm not the sharpest pencil in town but... Up is down and down is left and left is south... And if one sounds as if they know what they're talking about (not necessarily you, dude) then one can get away with claiming pretty much anything.

Let's focus on some of those silly little outliers: has the BLS factored in the black market in contraband? I ain't kiddin' - a lot of my friends make ends meet by peddling drugs. One friend I used to know actually put herself through collage doing that.

And then there is the employment/unemployment statistics. Hey, not collecting unemployment benefits, then you're just not counted sucker. And on and on it goes.

But something the right wing seems to have a special gift for: using both external sphincter muscles to verbalize their ideations.

The sound of fretting Republicans.

...Of that special gift the neo-con reactionary right-wing has: The amazing ability to use both external sphincter muscles to verbalize their methane laden ideations.

Because, it appears at this time, we need to be continuously reminded what a really, really, really bad idea nuclear energy is; as well as being an incredibly expensive way to boil water. A Faustian pact with the devil if there ever was one!!

Jeff Koons!!! It's that fabulous brush work. I just love that incredible technique of his. Don't you?

Massive amounts of representation without any stupid death and taxation.

McCain: How a moray eel does a shit eating grin.

Lieberman: How salamander or frog does a shit eating grin.

Not a winning ticket if you ask me.

Right now I'm fantasizing Barack Obama liberally quoting this blog post in one of his next speeches.

If Obama's FISA vote was any indication, I wonder?

He hasn't voted but has already indicated how he will.

This is from Glenn Greenwald's blog here at Salon.com:

Nobody should be fooled by Obama's vow to work to remove telecom amnesty from this bill. Harry Reid is already acknowledging that this "effort" is likely to fail and is just pure political theater: Reid said: "Probably we can't take that out of the bill, but I'm going to try." The article continued: "Reid said the vote would allow those opposed to the liability protection to 'express their views.'"

We should continue to demand that amnesty is removed from the bill -- and fight it to the bitter end -- but this whole separate vote they'll have in the Senate on whether to remove amnesty is principally designed to enable Obama, once he votes to enact this bill, to say: "Well, I tried to get immunity out, and when I couldn't, I decided to support the compromise." It's almost certainly the case that Hoyer secured Obama's support for the bill before unveiling it.

Either way, Obama -- if amnesty isn't removed -- is going to vote for warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty, and his statement today all but sealed the fate of this bill. There is no point in sugarcoating that, though we ought to continue to fight its enactment with a focus on removing amnesty in the Senate. Greg Sargent makes several good points about Obama's statement.

My opinion of them continues to fall. NPR is the Fox News for the wine and brie set.

I knew the band U2 became irrelevant when they sued Negativeland for copyright infringement. But when Bono started smoochy smoochy with Jesse Helms *sticks finger in throat* - now hedge fund manager (Heh,heh... Don't you just love the sound of that?) - U2 began to smell really, really bad.

Well, I see I'm not up to snuff on my U2/Bono (or is it Boner?) factoids. Bono 'n Helms? Bono the hedge fund manager? Let me know if I'm wrong about those too, would 'ya?

Hmm, I can tell by the odor that the Helms/Bono smoochy smoochy is really not a figment of my imagination. *continues to hold nose*

Cheers!!

P.S. Heh,heh,heh... "The Edge". Is that really the other one's name? And wasn't that him on stage with Sheryl Crow and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina boo hoo hooing about piracy? Oh, tut-tut.

...Which has caused the wine to become vinegar, the brie to curdle and lips to purse.

That McCain moment adds new meaning to "pregnant pause".

Apparently, neither does rarefied navel gazing.

...But, this is really funny.

http://www.slatev.com/player.html?id=1701226987

The same reason Americans voted for the Shrub twice: Americans are severely encephalorectalized ignoranuses.

After all the carnage of the Iraq war based on lies, doctored intelligence and the crass manipulation of the public's fear, what do the American people care about? Fear and venality are the defining characteristics of this country's citizens.

Land of the brave? *Pffft* Make your bed and sleep in it.

If McCain thinks nothing of riffing a Beach Boys' song: "Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran"... Then for his sorry ass's sake it's probably a good idea to keep him away from email.

Is this the kettle speaking? Or the pot?

I don't know if that truly describes that strange rictal wound on the Shrub's face, but that was a very, very funny description - many kudos to you.

Actually, Shrub's smile looks to me more like how a really scary reptile does a shit eating grin... Well, don't you think so?

Time again to read Barbara Tuchman's "Proud Tower" and "Guns of August.

Because they provide the more reasonable among us a litmus test of how far and severely encephalorectalized the average American mind really is today.

Thanks Rush!!