I am not joking, kids. I’m not posting her latest boorish statements to incite your wrath. No, I want your mirth. Wasting rage on Ann Coulter is like trying to donate sperm to a brothel. It’s like kissing dandelions in a tornado.
On women: If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.
It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it’s the party of women and ‘We’ll pay for health care and tuition and day care — and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?’
On why global warming is religion on the left: Because we can’t prove them wrong for a thousand years, and I think the other thing about it is, it goes back to Chesterton’s statement: that when people stop believing in God, the problem isn’t that they believe in nothing, it’s that they’ll believe anything. And that’s what you constantly see with people who don’t believe in God: They’re always imitating the most ridiculous, primitive religions. And it is like a primitive religion, thinking if we just change these lightbulbs, we can change the temperature of the ocean. It’s the craziest thing! Even primitive people wouldn’t believe something that silly.
Bill Clinton on the Republicans’ “feigned outrage” over MoveOn.org’s attack on General Petraeus:
These are the people that ran a television ad in Georgia with [former Sen.] Max Cleland — who lost half his body in Vietnam — in the same ad with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. That’s what the Republicans did,” he continued. “And the person that rode to the senate on that ad was there voting to condemn the democrats over the Petraeus ad.
In the whirlwind of soundbites preceding the 2004 election, CBS news anchor Dan Rather was ill-equipped to defend himself when questions of authenticity arose about documents showing Bush had never completed his Texas Air National Guard Service.
But something funny happened on the way to Rather’s becoming a punchline for Limbaugh republicans: no one ever actually proved the documents were fakes. Indeed, the Bush administration never denied the essential accuracy of Dan Rather’s story. Apparently, that’s because it was true. It didn’t matter. Rather was fired, and disgraced to boot.
Well, Rather’s a very rich man with a lot of free time. So he’s bringing a law suit that will set the record straight and embarrass an awful lot of people. Because unlike a political campaign, lawsuits take an awful lot of time to sort out. Too long, in fact, for idiots like Limbaugh and O’Reilly to shout them down. Salon has the story:
In making his case, Rather will certainly establish beyond reasonable doubt that George W. Bush never completed his required service in the Texas Air National Guard. Moreover, Rather’s suit will seek to demonstrate that the documents used in his “60 Minutes II” piece were not inauthentic and that he and his producers acted responsibly in presenting them and the information they contained — and that that information is true. Indeed, no credible source has refuted the essential facts of the story.
Most cases of this sort are usually settled before discovery. But Rather has made plain that he is uninterested in a cash settlement. He has filed his suit precisely to be able to take depositions.
Witness the power of the internet! These are all t-shirt designs that have popped up in that last week referencing this attention-whoring doofus. I didn’t search very hard for these at all, and even left out at least five that were just lame text.
But the former Federal Reserve chief and staunch fiscal conservative has got nothing but good things to say about Clinton.
Of the presidents he worked with, Mr. Greenspan reserves his highest praise for Bill Clinton, whom he described in his book as a sponge for economic data who maintained “a consistent, disciplined focus on long-term economic growth.”
It was a presidency marred by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he writes, but he fondly describes his alliance with two of Mr. Clinton’s Treasury secretaries, Robert E. Rubin and Lawrence H. Summers, in battling financial crises in Latin America and then Asia.
WHAT is shocking about Senator Larry Craig’s bathroom arrest is not what he may have been doing tapping his shoe in that stall, but that Minnesotans are still paying policemen to tap back. For almost 40 years most police departments have been aware of something that still escapes the general public: men who troll for sex in public places, gay or “not gay,” are, for the most part, upstanding citizens. Arresting them costs a lot and accomplishes little.
[T]here’s actually a chance—a 38 percent chance, to be more precise—that the senator can cop a plea on the charge of hypocrisy. In his study of men who frequent public restrooms in search of sex, Laud Humphreys discovered that 54 percent were married and living with their wives, 38 percent did not consider themselves homosexual or bisexual, and only 14 percent identified themselves as openly gay. Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Personal Places, a doctoral thesis which was published in 1970, detailed exactly the pattern—of foot-tapping in code, hand-gestures, and other tactics—which has lately been garishly publicized at a Minneapolis-St. Paul airport men’s room. The word tearoom seems to have become archaic, but in all other respects the fidelity to tradition is impressive.
Posted on September 3rd, 2007 in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Cleansing America: Orson Card imagines deporting millions of illegal workers. I think his scenario is spot-0n, and a lot of the rhetoric is refreshingly caustic. Nevertheless, the picture painted in this editorial is a bit of a red herring for a couple of reasons:
There’s no serious political will to actually deport the millions of workers currently living here. Most who oppose any kind of “amnesty” aren’t actually advocating a mass deportation policy. Instead, they want to close up the borders and deport only those who commit crimes or endanger others, leaving most of the undocumented to live here in a kind of unofficially tolerated quasi-legal status.
Deporting all those people is impossible. Part of the reason people aren’t seriously entertaining mass deportation is because rounding up millions of people and paying for their return “home” would be unworkable in nearly every way. Our nation’s already stretched law enforcement resources and personnel can’t be feasibly diverted to rounding up the mostly law abiding immigrant workforce. And there’s no money to pay for such a crazy gambit. Oh, and if we succeeded, there’s little doubt the deportees would return.
I’m among those who believe the current status quo is better than a flawed immigration bill. Immigrants come here because we have jobs for them. There is no better example of the free market than the flow of workers from Mexico, where they are not valued, to the US where they are badly needed. Sure, immigrant workers require medical care and schooling for their children, but the efficiency we gain in hiring aspiring Americans to work difficult, low-paying jobs in exchange for a shot at improving their lives, well…it’s a no brainer.
I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps. And I believe that our education like such as South Africa and the Iraq everywhere, like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the US should help the US or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for our [children].
A Soviet Poster A Day is a blog that does exactly what the title implies. The author presents a new Soviet propaganda poster each day, along with a translation of the text and a brief discussion of the historical context.
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