allisnow: (usa // obama eats waffles)
2009-06-17 11:16 am
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I needed a good laugh this morning

From Frank at IMAO:

So Obama is whining about how FOX News is against him, which seems an odd complaint on a day when we find out ABC will turn its news program into an infomercial on his behalf to sell the public healthcare. Also, Bush had to deal with CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN against him, and he didn’t whine. Then again, you have to remember things are much harder for Obama. He has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. And not like he can turn to his VP for wisdom. Thus Obama needs constant encouragement for all television channels to keep doing his job.

Maybe we should take some time to offer our own words of encouragement to him.

Obama, I know things have been difficult for you, but so far you haven’t accidentally cut off any of your fingers. That’s a victory right there. And even though you’ve been president for a few month, we haven’t had a nuclear attack. And though 10% unemployment seems like a lot, that is 90% employment which seems like even more. So just buck up and read whatever is on your teleprompter and I’m sure you’ll get through this.
allisnow: (usa // don't tax me bro)
2009-06-09 07:37 pm
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Just how many jobs have we lost?

For those of us who need visuals, this guy is a Godsend.

allisnow: (etc // poe // i c what u did)
2009-06-09 06:53 am
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A couple quick news links of interest

Media Skeptical of Obama Stimulus Claims

In New York, Senate Coup Takes Down Dems

This one is actually pretty wild.

During the coup, Democrats fled the chamber, turned out the lights, and cut off the Internet feed of chamber proceedings, leaving Republicans and their two Democratic friends to take the vote in the dark.


EPA Proposes Tax on Cow Farts

And some fluffy entertainment news:

Katee Sackhoff Joins Season 8 of 24
allisnow: (usa // woodstock flag)
2009-06-06 10:46 am
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Fox Nation comes out of the closet

From Harvey at IMAO.us

From 2009, Fox Nation comes out of the closet and lets everyone know exactly what they stand for, with “Statement of Purpose”:

Direct link because lj doesn't like java

It blows my mind that this video had to be made. There is nothing in here but the safest, most uncontroversial catch-phrases and buzz-words, like :

Constitution; Declaration of Independence; Emancipation Proclamation; community; American Dream Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; honor; responsibility; great adventure; our way of life; creativity; ingenuity; work ethic; civility; mutual respect; unity; tolerance; open debate; civil discourse; freedom of thought, expression, and worship; values

This should be a yawner. A no-brainer. Completely and utterly unremarkable.

But it’s not that kind of world.

To paraphrase Nathan Jessep, “Fox News uses these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. The rest of the news media uses them as a punch line.”

Ideally, ANY news organization - hell, any organization period - should be able to say EXACTLY what Fox Nation said without a second thought, a sense of embarrassment, or the need to use a tone of sneering irony.

But it’s not that kind of world.

We live in the kind of world where an unabashedly American statement like this makes Fox Nation look like some sort of ultra-triple-mythical beast from an alternate universe where the laws of physics and mathematics don’t apply. Fox Nation is a vamwericorn (half vampire, half werewolf, half unicorn), and it’s existence is grotesque and incomprehensible to liberal media elite and their sycophantic toadies in government and academia.

To hell with them.

I want to live in a Fox Nation kind of world.
allisnow: (movie // jp // omg raptor)
2009-06-04 10:52 pm
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Wacky weather, politics, books and other things

But first, a helpful tip:

They are speed bumps, not land mines. Unless you are carrying hazardous chemicals or an Ace of Cakes cake in the back of your minivan, you do not need to slow to -15 mph before going over a six-inch hump in the road.

Anyway.

I was going to post about this this morning, but I ran out of time before my doctor's appointment.

I woke up last night around 2:30am and there was this insane storm going on. Keep in mind that in this part of CA we don't get serious thunderstorms in the late spring/summer very often. Maybe 1-2, would you say, [livejournal.com profile] starfinn?

What was wacky about this storm was that there was no rain and very little wind, but tons of clouds and tons of lightning. I couldn't hear much thunder, either because of wind or altitude or the fact that my windows really shut out the noise. But there was soooo much lightning... like, a pulse every few seconds, and then once a minute or so a stronger bolt of lightning. I've always been fascinated by thunderstorms rather than scared by them, but this made me feel a little bit of both. I opened up the curtains in my room and watched it until it stopped.

On the way home today there were so many clouds in the sky, and all different species... it was like a huge cloud orgy -- fluffy clouds and dark clouds and clouds that look cut off at the top and feathery ones and clouds that are stretched out in stripes. I'm sure [livejournal.com profile] kismatt could tell us all the technical names ;)

A few random notes:

1. 300 wins for Randy Johnson! Yay! (Cain calls him RJ, that is so cute *G*)

2. Steven Crowder does Keith Olbermann! (Eww, not like that)


3. [livejournal.com profile] skydiver119, I can only speak for myself, but personally I never found disagreeing with Bush to be unpatriotic. But sometimes the same people who were doing the complaining were, in the next breath, saying other things that came off as sounding unpatriotic.

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4. Jacqueline Carey is going to be in SF again this June! I got to see her last summer when she was signing for Kushiel's Justice and it was pretty awesome. [livejournal.com profile] seldear, I wish your visit coincided with hers :(

5. Okay, I think that's it.
allisnow: (etc // poe // i c what u did)
2009-06-01 09:31 pm
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GraphJam

I thought some of my collegiate f-listers would appreciate this.

song chart memes
see more Funny Graphs
allisnow: (usa // praise allah)
2009-05-07 10:42 pm
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Crowder FTW!

Separation of church and state, my ass.

allisnow: (usa // don't tax me bro)
2009-04-21 05:45 pm
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Finally posted!

I've been waiting for a week for someone to post this! It's Alfonzo Rachel, one of the speakers at the Sacramento Tea Party and an awesome blogger.

allisnow: (usa // obama eats waffles)
2009-04-16 06:39 pm
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These guys are awe-some.





ETA: Some more awesomeness, this time from the Chicago tea party. You may have seen the condescending CNN bitch already, but there's some extra footage here. Says AP:

Stick with it until the end or else you’ll miss the astounding nerve of this disingenuous moron, who just spent three minutes on national television sneering at the people around her, to say to the woman who’s yelling at her, “You know, you really don’t need to be so antagonistic.” Content warning.


allisnow: (Default)
2009-03-07 10:56 am
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A brilliant editorial on the Facebook phenomonon over at the Weekly Standard: Down with Facebook!

Maybe it's hypocritical of me to mock Facebook users on a LiveJournal page, but I don't know. It's just not the same thing.

Is it?
allisnow: (usa // not racist enough)
2009-03-03 09:29 pm
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allisnow: (etc // long winding road)
2009-01-26 06:26 pm
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*kersplodes from the crazy*

(Political) Science Fiction: Is Battlestar Galactica Relevant in the Obama Era?

Summary: Now that Obama has solved all of the world's problems, will the portrayal of people with realistic problems be something viewers can relate to?

Read it. It's hilarious.

*screams and runs around flailing*
allisnow: (etc // roe v wade)
2009-01-26 07:43 am
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Pelosi strikes again

I'm not sure if this is disgusting or just moronic.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi on birth-control funding as part of the $825 billion stimulus package: "Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."


1. I think everybody with half a brain understands by this point that the 'economic stimulus package' is just a big crap sandwich full of pork so Obama and his friends can reward the people they want to reward... including Planned Parenthood, which IIRC had to lay off a good chunk of their workforce. If those folks aren't working, they're not donating. (And I know some people on my f-list are pro-PP, and I'm sorry, but they nauseate me.)

2. I'm rather disturbed by Pelosi's assertion, and I've heard it echoed on the morning news shows, that somehow the solution to the economic crisis is for people to have fewer kids so we don't have to educate them, etc. If you heard Bob Beckel on Fox News Live this morning, he thinks population control is a great idea. Never mind that this initiative is linked to Medicaid, which only focuses on a certain segment of the population.

3. Um, Nance, you do realize that any benefits of this 'family planning' won't be felt for a long, long time? I think I'll just quote Ed over at HotAir:

Well, I hate to be the one to explain this to Grandma Pelosi, but contraception doesn’t actually work as a short-term cost control method. Maybe she forgot this from her high-school health classes, but a lack of contraception in March won’t actually produce extra mouths to feed until December. Education costs, which Pelosi explicitly mentions in support of this initiative, wouldn’t appear until 2013 at the earliest. And actually, this would provide an economic stimulus to the education industry, one of the few legitimate areas of government spending at some level to create jobs (although not the federal level).


I know it's partly the PMS talking, but I really want to punch somebody right now.
allisnow: (usa // obama eats waffles)
2009-01-17 10:26 pm
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The only thing we have to fear

Fred Barnes has a great article about Obama over at the Weekly Standard.

Barack Obama is the apostle of hope. But he also arouses the flipside of hope--fear. And while the fear he stirs may turn out to be unfounded, it's not irrational. People don't know who Obama really is or where his ideological center of gravity rests, to the extent it rests anywhere. He was a liberal in the Senate and the campaign, a centrist in the transition, and who knows what he'll be as president. He's elusive.

I count four separate fears. Whether he's a crypto-Marxist is not one of them. Neither is the absurd fear that he's secretly a Muslim, even a closet jihadist. Nor is the groundless claim Obama was actually born outside the United States and isn't really an American citizen. Forget all those. They're nonstarters.

He doesn't know what he's talking about. This is a legitimate fear. Obama throws around numbers like confetti. In the campaign, he said he would create 1 million jobs. After the election, he put out a plan he said would produce up to 3 million jobs. Then in a radio address on January 10, he said the number could reach 4.1 million and said 500,000 would be jobs in the alternative energy field, 200,000 in health care. Does he really believe he can achieve this? The fear is that he might.

"Social Security, we can solve," he told the Washington Post last week. Really? President Bush, freshly reelected, promoted Social Security reform in 2005 and got nowhere. Certainly Obama was no help. Obama said his administration will begin confronting the issues of entitlement reform and long-term budget deficits soon after it jump-starts job growth and the stock market," the Post reported. When will this happen? Not next year or next summer but next month when he convenes a "fiscal responsibility summit."

Obama is smart, Ivy League-educated, and able to discuss issues knowledgeably and intelligently. He's put together a strong staff. The same was often said of Bill Clinton. Brains and advanced degrees, though they thrill Washington's journalistic elite, aren't enough. Clinton didn't have a magic wand and neither does Obama. True, reality often creeps in. Obama initially aimed to shut down Guantánamo instantly. Later his aides said it might take a year. Last week, Obama told the Post he'd consider it a failure if the prison hadn't been closed by the end of his first term.


Read the rest.
allisnow: (usa // obama eats waffles)
2009-01-04 11:03 am
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Oops.

Bill Richardson Withdraws as Commerce Secretary-Designate
The commerce secretary-designate has withdrawn his nomination because of an investigation into whether Bill Richardson exchanged New Mexico state government contracts for campaign financing.

At least he had the decency to drop out, I suppose.
allisnow: (etc // lime into coconut)
2008-09-18 08:40 pm
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I'm too tired/lazy to actually post, so I'm just going to throw some links at you.

Joe Biden: Paying high taxes makes you patriotic, and God likes it too

NewScientistTech: Software Spots the Spin in Political Speeches

PajamasMedia: Anti-Americanism in Europe Fueled by Ignorance

The Boston Globe says Don't Support the Troops

And just something kind of neat: Nearly invisible galaxy found orbiting Milky Way See. It really is all about us.
"So, I really am important? How I feel when I'm drunk is correct?"

"Yes. Except the Dave Matthews Band doesn't rock."