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Ebony and ivory
Jul. 30th, 2009 03:24 pmWhat would we do without Treacher?
Ebony and ivory
Drinkin' liquor in perfect harmony
Side by side in my photo op
Crank and cop
Now stop pickin' on me
We all know
That people hate the cops wherever you go
There is good in them
But mostly bad
When we learn to yell
We learn to tell each other how the whites all hate blacks
Regardless of facts
[Repeat until all the white folks shut up]
Drinkin' liquor in perfect harmony
Side by side in my photo op
Crank and cop
Now stop pickin' on me
We all know
That people hate the cops wherever you go
There is good in them
But mostly bad
When we learn to yell
We learn to tell each other how the whites all hate blacks
Regardless of facts
[Repeat until all the white folks shut up]
Hope AND change!
Jul. 30th, 2009 01:35 pmWe are definitely seeing a trend in Obama's job approval numbers.
Gallup: 52% approve, 41% disapprove (older numbers broken down by demographic)
Rasmussen: Rasmussen generates two sets of numbers - a general approval number, like Gallup, and a passion index, which is (% who strongly approve - % who strongly disapprove)
General numbers: 48% approve, 51% disapprove
Passion index: -12
Veeeeery interesting.
Rasmussen also has some other numbers that are rather interesting, also.
The much-touted 'beer summit' is coming up inside the next couple of hours. If I was watching these trends, I'd be hitting the bottle too.
Gallup: 52% approve, 41% disapprove (older numbers broken down by demographic)
Rasmussen: Rasmussen generates two sets of numbers - a general approval number, like Gallup, and a passion index, which is (% who strongly approve - % who strongly disapprove)
General numbers: 48% approve, 51% disapprove
Passion index: -12
Veeeeery interesting.
Rasmussen also has some other numbers that are rather interesting, also.
The much-touted 'beer summit' is coming up inside the next couple of hours. If I was watching these trends, I'd be hitting the bottle too.
Hysterical article on Slate about the wussification of vampires in pop culture, culminating with Twilight:
Read the whole thing.
Vampires Suck
Actually, they don't. And that's the problem.
By Grady Hendrix
Last week at Comic-Con, the big story wasn't comic books—it was vampires. Some 2,000 young women set up a tent city outside the San Diego Convention Center on Tuesday, sleeping rough so that they could attend the Thursday panel on New Moon, the upcoming sequel to vampire blockbuster Twilight.
It's just another sign of the massive popularity of vampires. Yet, like many people who acquire mega-celebrity, the vampire has developed an eating disorder. Read the books. Watch the movies. You'll see vampires who manage nightclubs, build computer databases, work as private investigators, go to prep school, lobby Congress, chat with humans, live near humans, have sex with humans, and pine over humans, but the one thing you won't see them do is suck the blood of humans.
Read the whole thing.
all the news that's fit to post
Jul. 11th, 2009 04:57 pmObama Administration's Plan to Coerce People out of Their Cars
Obama weekly radio address: OMG the stimulus is working SO GOOD!
Shuttle launch delayed to assess lighting strikes
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood remarked in May that his livability initiative "is a way to coerce people out of their cars." When asked if this was government intrusion into people's lives, LaHood responded that "about everything we do around here is government intrusion in people's lives," a sentiment that would have certainly surprised the authors of the United States Constitution, a document whose major purpose was to restrain government.
Obama weekly radio address: OMG the stimulus is working SO GOOD!
His polls numbers have slipped, especially among seniors and even independents. People still like him a lot (though they now like his wife better).
But they're increasingly worried about some of his programs and these numbers with more digits than civilian calculators can display -- all the spending and unemployment still growing, reform of healthcare that some 70% of Americans are satisfied with now.
Shuttle launch delayed to assess lighting strikes
Already a month behind schedule, launch of the shuttle Endeavour on a 16-day space station assembly mission was delayed at least 24 hours, from Saturday to Sunday, to give engineers time to evaluate the effects of multiple lightning strikes at the launch pad during a severe thunderstorm Friday.
Eleven lightning strikes were recorded within 1,800 feet of the launch pad 39A, and while the shuttle is protected from lightning-induced electrical surges, NASA managers decided more time was needed to make sure no critical systems were affected.
(Ed. - Is anyone else wondering if maybe God just doesn't want this mission launched? :-/)
You know, this whole prediliction for 'czars' is starting to creep me out just a little bit. Especially when they're authors of crap like this:
Um. Yeah. Totally mainstream. Totally middle-of-the-road.
Seriously, though, this czar crap is getting out of control. You've got people being given tons of control over policy decisions that don't have to be confirmed by the Senate, as in the case of cabinet picks, that aren't being vetted by the government or the media. Go ahead, try a google news search of this creep -- see what comes up. And what doesn't.
Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A "Planetary Regime" with the power of life and death over American citizens.
The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? Or both?
These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology -- informally known as the United States' Science Czar. In a book Holdren co-authored in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country wrote that:
• Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
• The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation's drinking water or in food;
• Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
• People who "contribute to social deterioration" (i.e. undesirables) "can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility" -- in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
• A transnational "Planetary Regime" should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans' lives -- using an armed international police force.
Um. Yeah. Totally mainstream. Totally middle-of-the-road.
Seriously, though, this czar crap is getting out of control. You've got people being given tons of control over policy decisions that don't have to be confirmed by the Senate, as in the case of cabinet picks, that aren't being vetted by the government or the media. Go ahead, try a google news search of this creep -- see what comes up. And what doesn't.
The Gut speaketh
Jun. 20th, 2009 09:28 pmAm I an old fart or am I right to be pissed that some jackass is skateboarding down the halls of the White House while all this Iranian shit is going down?
We truly have succumbed to the idiocy of the MTV/Mountain Dew/Road Rules backward hat and baggy short culture. Did I miss something, or is the White House the future set for the next Real World? Where are the wallet chains? Is Hot Topic handling our foreign policy? Obama should be grounded for a week for letting Tony Hawk play in OUR house. Where in hell are the adults?
Look: Tony Hawk is in his mid forties. He's a grown man...and he skateboards. Could you imagine your dad or anyone who lived during World War II treating a man who skateboards with anything less than scorn and ridicule?
Right now, people are risking their lives for the glimmer of freedom, and Tony Hawk is in the White House tweeting about Frosted Flakes.
Someone please dig up Reagan. I'd take a dead leader with balls over a living camp counselor who wants all the cool kids to like him.
What a screaming joke.
Das link: Tony Hawk skates through the White House
Wow. Just... wow.
